In the wake of safety concerns raised by MotoGP’s riders, some areas of the COTA circuit were smoothed out ahead of United States GP, but that dꦆidn’t stop compl🦩aints from drivers last weekend. 

Red Bull was forced to change Max Verstappen’s rear wing before qualifying after discovering a hairline crack, while both Ocon and Alpine teammate Esteban Ocon had to retire from t🍨he Austin race with issues at the rear-end of their cars. 

And Ocon thinks more work needs to be done to th🔯e track before F1 returns. 

“I think they are on the limit for reliability,” Ocon said of the bumps. “I think a little bit more if we come back next year and it has♚ a step in🙈 that direction, I think the cars will really start to face issues. 

“When you go slow it’s not a big problem, but once you go fast it’s big hits on the floor and on the suspension. The engineers are seeing red alarms in high loads and that🔯’s not something that we should see. 

“So I think the track needs some work for next year.♓” 

Pierre Gasly also suffered a suspension failure on his AlphaTauri c🦹ar in the♛ race that he suspected could have been caused by the bumps. 

Mercedes F1 team boss Toto Wolff♈ admitted that the team modif🦹ied Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas’s cars to avoid a “massacre” on the worst of Austin’s bumps. 

“The car was bottoming out quite h🐼eavy, and that breaks the car,” Wolff explained. 

“Sওo we took some mitig🌜ating steps to not break it, or massacre it that hard, in order to survive the race. 

"Definitely a compromise for going faster on the track, but maybe a necessity to act🐻ually finish.”

However, noౠt every team encountered issues over the course of the 🌠US Grand Prix weekend. 

“The drivers didn’t complain,” said Haas team principal Guenther Steiner. “They ⛦said they were at the limit of the bumps as what is acceptable. 

“But there was never♉ a concern over the reliability of the🅷 car or the suspension of the car.” 

McLaren team boss Andreas Seidl also said his d✤rivers had “nothing outstanding” to report back regarding the bumps. 

“Personally I have to say I like it also that we have these challenge🦹s with the bumps, because it gives🍸 these tracks a certain characteristic,” he added. 

“A lot of drivers also commented that they actually like the additi❀onal challenge, which makes it even more tricky to put the fast laps in. 

“So nothing negative to comment from the bumps we have seen he🧜re this weekend.”