Ecclestone wants more risks in F1

In order to revive interest in F1, Bernie Ecclestone would like to make races riskier for drivers. The future 2017 regulations will already offer more efficient single-seaters, but the discipline's financier plans to work on the circuits to make them more demanding.

“At the time, and this can no longer happen today, spectators came to watch the race thinking that someone might be killed. The public who come now think the opposite, which is good”, commented Bernie Ecclestone in the Austin paddock.

F1 focused on safety after Ayrton Senna's fatal accident at the San Marino Grand Prix on May 1, 1994. The sport was again marked by tragedy with the death of Jules Bianchi on July 17, 2015 , the result of an accident at the 2014 Japanese GP on October 4 where he hit a crane which was in intervention.

“I want to build 40cm high walls at the edge of the bend. People keep telling me that drivers shouldn't be able to go off the track. They couldn't do it this way anymore, added Bernie Ecclestone. They did not go off the track in Baku (Azerbaijan, June 19) and I never saw them go off the track in Monaco or Singapore. These circuits certainly offer good racing…”