Wurz: "Always been against artificial track limits"

Several drivers made mistakes in Imola by not adhering to the track limits. This resulted in several deleted lap times. Former Formula 1 driver Alexander Wurz is worried about the current state of affairs.

Between Friday's first free practice and Saturday's final qualifying session, the race committee scrapped no less than 63 laps because drivers had made a mistake at turn 9 or 15. As a result, Lando Norris did not retain his third starting position, but had to start the race from seventh.

Wurz, who drove for Benetton, McLaren, Williams and Honda between 1997 and 2008, sees that race control has to intervene too often. That is why he proposes to make the circuits such that there is no advantage to going off-track.

"I have always been against artificial track limits," Wurz told ORF, as quoted by Motorsport-Total.com. "You need natural track limits. There's grass or gravel, that works easily."

The Austrian can also imagine Formula 1 omitting track limits, although he sees another problem ahead. "Then the cars would drive another two metres further to the right. And then there would be no run-off at all and as an FIA race director you would be making your own safety calculation absurd. That's why the race director actually has little choice."