[Keith Collantine]

Jean-Eric Vergne was in action for Pirelli and Ferrari at Fiorano two days ago testing prototype tyres for the 2017 season. Here’s some video shot by a fan:

According to Pirelli the tyres he used “are the 2016 size”. There is a picture going around purporting to show Vergne running wide rear tyres:

Those 2017 spec size tyres looks massive on an #F1 car, like old times. With the new aero rules the cars will be top pic.twitter.com/8nKroRKJFo

— F1Writers™ (@f1writers) May 4, 2016

But it appears to be fake – you can see where it came from if you pause the video above at 1’08:

Ferrari test screengrab

[Mike]

… Would you know if the fake photo resembles the size that they will be?
(As in, is it useful as a mock up?)

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