After claiming pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton called on the FIA to look at the kerbs of the Red Bull Ring following three further incidents on Saturday.
Hamilton took pole in a chaotic Q3 affected by rain, a result made all the more significant following a gearbox penalty for his teammate and title rival Nico Rosberg after a heavy crash in FP3. That incident came after a rear suspension failure from the high yellow kerbs pitched the No. 6 Mercedes into the wall.
Further failures occurred in Q1, with Sergio Perez and Daniil Kvyat damaging their rear suspensions on the kerbs, the latter violently crashing out of the session.
Asked about his thoughts of the circuit after qualifying, Hamilton said: "I can't speak on behalf of all the drivers but for me looking at it those yellow kerbs look quite dangerous, we've now seen a couple of incidents already. I don't know how many more of those its going to take before a car ends up in the wall and someone gets hurt, so something we need to [look at]...
The kerbs have been placed on the circuit to stop drivers putting all four wheels off the track, but Hamilton thinks that can be achieved another way.
"I'm sure it's something and the FIA are looking at, but that's definitely an area we can improve. I think the idea's good because they don't want us running wide and using the outside of the circuit, but maybe another solution is going to be needed."
Hamilton's pole position only came after he nailed his final lap on a drying track to edge Rosberg to the quickest time in the session. The world champion explained how he took a big gamble on track position to nail the pole lap.
"Really fun session. One of those sessions that starts off dry,goes wet and quite incredibly here it dries off so quickly -- it's like driving through fog at some stages. I think it just adds to the excitement of the whole thing. I'd never driven in the rain here before, and being a new surface as well it was very, very slippery.
"It was drying up corner by corner and at the end it was about getting the last lap. The previous lap was a good lap as well but if I finished that lap I would have been right behind Daniel Ricciardo, so I backed off -- which is a big risk, obviously, because if I didn't finish my lap or there had been a yellow flag I wouldn't have been able to get pole. But that's a risk I took and fortunately it paid off, so I'm very happy with it."