System 1 drivers have backed a trial of a tool aimed toward lowering spray within the rain – and mentioned races shouldn’t be began if visibility is unhealthy.

McLaren’s Lando Norris mentioned: “It is about time. As drivers, we’ve mentioned for years that one thing must be achieved.”

Rain is forecast for the British Grand Prix on Saturday and Sunday.

Norris added that poor visibility within the moist was “the largest security concern on the minute inside F1”.

Dutch driver Dilano van ‘t Hoff was killed in a junior class race at Spa-Francorchamps final Saturday in precisely the form of accident about which F1 drivers have been warning.

The 18-year-old T-boned a automobile that had crashed on the straight and bounced again on to the monitor, having been unsighted by spray from different automobiles in a moist race.

Norris mentioned: “We have been fortunate that nothing has occurred in F1 or many different classes and within the worst case sadly we have needed to lose a life for folks to grasp these issues can occur.

“And it could not simply occur there. It might have occurred final weekend for us in Austria.

“It is a disgrace we needed to see such a consequence for folks to know what can occur. It is one thing that must be achieved.

“What is the subsequent factor that may enhance security probably the most? It is truly having the ability to see the place we’re going. That helps generally. I look ahead to it. I’m doing a take a look at so we are going to see how good it will likely be. If it would not work one thing else must be achieved to discover a answer.”

Different drivers mentioned on media day on the British Grand Prix that, whether or not the mudguard system labored or not, officers ought to increase their limits for acceptable circumstances through which races might be began within the moist.

Fashionable F1 automobiles produce extra downforce than ever earlier than and the facility of the automobiles’ aerodynamics considerably worsens the quantity of spray they produce.

Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas mentioned: “We should not be beginning races in any class should you principally cannot see.”

Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll mentioned: “If it really works, it needs to be placed on the automobiles as rapidly as doable. And if it would not work, we shouldn’t be placing ourselves in conditions the place we’re racing in circumstances the place we will not see.”

Van ‘t Hoff’s accident occurred on the Kemmel straight, a couple of hundred metres on from the exit of the notorious Eau Rouge swerves, that are taken at near 200mph and end with a blind left-hander over a crest known as Raidillon.

Stroll mentioned: “We will not see something in heavy moist climate. Japan final 12 months, I can recall many races over the previous few races in F1 have been you simply can not see something if you find yourself behind one other automobile and it is extraordinarily harmful.

“If somebody has an incident in entrance of you and is sideways in the course of the monitor and you may’t see the place you are going, we should not be racing in these circumstances.

“It is horrible what occurred final week. I do not assume that race ought to have gone forward in these circumstances with the structure of that monitor. I bear in mind being in that precise scenario in Spa if you find yourself developing on prime of Eau Rouge and also you’re in the course of a pack and you may’t see something.”

Haas driver Kevin Magnussen mentioned: “When you may’t see, it feels ridiculous while you’re doing these speeds and also you may as effectively shut your eyes. There’s zero visibility and it will be nice if that may very well be improved considerably.”

Crimson Bull’s Sergio Perez mentioned he believed the brand new anti-spray system would the have an effect on downforce ranges of the automobiles and a few groups would endure greater than others.

However he added: “Security ought to come first. It would permit us to race in additional harmful circumstances.”