DC slams Hungaroring kerbs!

David Coulthard has criticised the kerbs at the Hungaroring after the Scot was forced to miss the entire second practice session after badly damaging the under-tray of his car.

DC was completing a fast lap near the end of the first practice session this morning when his car drifted onto the high kerbs at turn 13 completely destroying the under-body of the car and resulting in the session being red-flagged.

DC said: "I made a mistake going into the corner and understeered wide and there's a different kerb there, the same type of kerbs that we have on the inside of the last chicane in Canada, which seem to work quite well there for not pulling the dirt and grass onto the track. But I looked at the track yesterday and I thought this might be a bit difficult to have them on the exit of the corner, because they are about three and a half inches high and it's not ramped up - you just run straight into them."

"So in this case, I ran wide and it smashed the underside of my chassis. So we will have to change cars for tomorrow. So I was a little bit surprised, not just because I made a mistake and I paid the price for it, but I'm a little bit surprised that we allowed those kerbs to be put in place and it's one of the things that we need to talk about this evening. We've discussed many times in the drivers meetings that the penalty for making a mistake should be a loss of time, it shouldn't be damaging your chassis. If you hit the barrier, well, there you go, that's the limit of the circuit. But to have your car smashed on a kerb like that is just stupid really, so we will be discussing it this evening."

He added: "The kerbs are the same on the outside as they are on the inside. They are too solid. Ferrari has been up there (with the Stewards) complaining as well, and they have not had the damage that we have had. So I would say that they should make changes to the kerbs before the race."