McLaren boss Zak Brown has referred to as on System One’s governing physique to make sure the track-limits fiasco which overshadowed the Austrian Grand Prix by no means occurs once more.

Drivers had been penalised all through the weekend on the Pink Bull Ring in Spielberg for crossing the white traces – with the ultimate classification for Sunday’s race solely settled 5 hours after the chequered flag.

Eight of the 20-strong grid had been dealt post-race sanctions by the FIA, with Lewis Hamilton demoted from seventh to eighth.

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz slipped two locations to sixth, whereas Frenchman Esteban Ocon was handed a unprecedented half-a-minute’s value of mixed penalties for track-limit infringements.

Earlier within the weekend, world champion Max Verstappen accused race director Niels Wittich of creating the grid’s stars appear to be “amateurs”. In all, greater than 100 laps had been deleted throughout Sunday’s race.

“It undoubtedly wasn’t excellent what occurred, and that’s stating the plain,” mentioned Brown.

“The place we have to do a greater job is that we knew this was going to be an issue on Friday and but we simply form of watched it occur.

“We want to verify it by no means occurs once more, and that we do a correct debrief and perceive how we might have prevented it within the first place or dealt with it otherwise.”

McLaren driver Lando Norris benefited from Sainz’s post-race penalty to be promoted to fourth to take his greatest results of a troublesome season for the British group.

Brown, talking on the reveal of a one-off livery for McLaren’s residence race at Silverstone this weekend, continued: “I’ll take my hat off to the FIA for addressing the problem and I believe it might have been simple to say, ‘that is going to trigger lots of noise, let’s simply form of get it proper subsequent time’.

“For them to place their arms and say there have been some penalties that wanted to be addressed, I assumed that was a courageous choice.

“However we are able to’t have it once more. We will’t have a race after which 5 hours later you will have that diploma of change within the end result.”