Manor has no plans to introduce a smaller nose before the start of the 2016 season.

Manor's 2016 car retains the longer nose design that many teams either moved away from last season or abandoned completely for their new models. Sauber is yet to unveil it's 2016 car but is likely to follow the development of the C34, which had a shorter nose.

"Yeah, it is a bit different to everyone else's!" team boss Dave Ryan said about the new nose. "It works for us. That's all I can say really.

The team's new engine supplier Mercedes, which has the shortest design in the paddock, was testing radical nose concepts out during the opening week of testing. Big teams have spent a lot of money to get shorter noses through crash tests but Ryan insists money is not a factor.

"It's probably not a step too far. It's a bigger job, let's put it that way. From our perspective it didn't seem to be too much difference from an aero performance so we stuck with what we had really and developed along that concept."

Manor only stayed in F1 due to a late comeback from administration ahead of the 2015 Australian Grand Prix, but spent the whole year using a modified 2014 chassis and a year-old Ferrari engine. Ryan says the team has been focused solely on this car since June last year and is happy with what it has brought to Barcelona.

"We've been working on this car pretty much since July last year -- June, July. On a very small scale. We didn't put any development into last year's car, there was no real point. It just wasn't worth putting that much effort into. All our time in the workshop and in the windtunnel has been focused has been thinking about this car. You have to realise we're a pretty small organisation so we have to do the best we can with what we can and do it in a timely manner otherwise we won't deliver it in the timespan we have to.

"It was always the intention to have a brand new car for this year and have nothing carry over. That's what we have, there's nothing carried over, this is all new. It's the best we can do at the moment, let's put it that way."