Austria kerbs are 'a mistake' and 'stupid' - Kvyat

Daniil Kvyat says the FIA should remove the "stupid" kerbs on the exits of a number of corners ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix.

This year the Red Bull Ring features a number of new kerbs, with deterrents on the outside of many corners in the form of larger yellow kerbs. Kvyat ran slightly wide at Turn 8 during Q1 on Saturday which caused his right rear suspension to fail, pitching him into a wall at high speed and heavily damaging his car.

The Russian says changes should be made to the circuit ahead of the race having been punished so heavily.

“I think they should take them off," Kvyat said. "They’ve done a mistake, they have to admit that it’s stupid.

"At the last corner I asked them ‘Do we have track limits?’ and they said ‘No, we have no track limits’ so Saturday we are working towards no track limits. So one corner has track limits another corner has no track limits.

“There was no strong opinion from the drivers or anyone, but [on Saturday] the consequences are stronger, there is three suspensions broke and very similar failures. I think three different teams had suspension failures on kerbs, I think they are in a place where they need to find a better solution.”

Kvyat was referencing Sergio Perez and Nico Rosberg who also suffered suspension failures, although Rosberg was not on a yellow kerb when his left rear suspension broke.

When it was put to Kvyat that the drivers should stay off the larger kerbs as they are designed to be a deterrent, he said drivers are always likely to try and find any advantage they can.

"We are drivers, you give us a two kilometres run off area we will try to use this as much as we can. Like I said based on my experience [in practice], I went on that kerb also and the suspension didn’t fail. [In qualifying] it failed. So, yeah I think only pussies doesn’t go there."