Brawn revealed how an office quiz at FOM headquarters in London has put a lie to claims that F1 will lose its magic if teams are not allowed enough innovation to do their own thing and create different looking cars.

"There are complaints that all the cars are going to look the same and the other nonsense we have heard," he explained. "So as an exercise, Pat [Symonds] took all the existing cars and took the livery off them and put them up [on a wall].

"You cannot tell the difference between the cars we have now once the colours are taken off them. You need to be an extreme geek to pick them out, and even within our office we managed to pick three out! So when you see the existing cars with the colours taken off, you wouldn't know.