One of the new rules this season will see all drivers running on a fuel tank of fuel at the start for the race with refuelling through the event now banned altogether. That means that all twenty six runners will start with enough fuel to get them through the entire race.

Banning refuelling through the race is not new, in fact pre 1994 this practice was also in force and out of the current grid there are just two racers that were driving in that era, Williams driver Rubens Barrichello and Mercedes man Michael Schumacher.

While there are some that feel that this fact may give the two veteran racers an advantage, Barrichello insists that it will be just as new to them as it is to everyone else as there are so many other factors in place....

"Purely on the driver's side, it's not going to be much fun starting the race on 160 kilos of fuel and going through the first few laps because obviously you're talking about four seconds slower and anything a driver doesn't want is to go slower," Barrichello said.

"But it's a different technique; it's a different approach to it. So in that there is a challenge and it is a new challenge to everyone. I think it is very different. People say I was the only one, and now Michael coming back, he also has the experience of driving full tanks. But it is very, very different to '93 when we drove that. So it is a new experience."

"It's a different car to drive. Heavy for heavy, yeah, it is the same amount of fuel that is there. You didn't have more downforce because the cars improve all the time, the tyres are different and as Formula 1 went on the cars became a bit more... you had to be on line,  a few years back you used to have more slides. Now because you are so dependent on the aerodynamics you are not able to."