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Carlos Sainz has said that drivers should have more fun with next year's cars.
Wider tyres and radically different bodywork will see the cars not only look more aggressive, but will see them lap circuits several seconds faster than the 2015 machines.
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"If the numbers that we are seeing in the simulator in terms of grip, aerodynamics and tyres ... all I can say is that the cars are going to be much faster," he told the Spanish sports newspaper AS.
"Perhaps at the beginning of the year it will be three seconds and then four and a half or five by the end, but for sure they will be faster and the drivers will have more fun," Sainz added.
However, he warned that tyre supplier Pirelli remains the key to races being more exciting next year.
"I don't know if the philosophy of F1 will change," he said. "There will be five more litres of fuel, but unless Pirelli changes the philosophy of the tyres a lot then I doubt know if it will change radically to what it (F1) was in 2005 or 2006."
Asked if Pirelli is therefore the key, Sainz admitted: "Yes, it depends mainly on Pirelli, because in the end we will not notice those extra five kilos of fuel but the tyres are essential."
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