Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz said more should have been done to make the Jeddah circuit safer ahead of this weekend's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Having hosted the penultimate round of the 2021 season in December, the track is now hosting the second race of the 2022 season less than four months later.
Billed as the fastest street circuit in the world, the track was criticised last year for the number of blind high-speed corners, where the walls prevented drivers from seeing potential hazards ahead.
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Race organisers responded to those complaints by moving some of the walls back to improve the sightlines for drivers.
But according to Sainz, who finished second earlier this week in Bahrain, not enough has been done.
"I was commenting with Charles that they just moved the wall, but the driving line will still be close to the wall," he said.
"It means our visibility doesn't improve, which for me just shows that we need to keep making this relationship with the FIA tighter (and) better because we expected a step in the right direction.
"In my opinion this is not much better. It is marginally a very small tiny bit, smallest ever better."
Lewis Hamilton took pole position for last year's race with an average speed of 253 km/h, while Red Bull driver Sergio Perez called the track "dangerous".
Leclerc, who leads the world championship after winning the season-opening race, was also disappointed.
"It's going in the right direction, but I don't think it's enough, especially in the last part of the track from what I've seen," he explained.
"But the first part, from turn four to I think turn 12, it didn't change much with what was probably the most critical part."
"But I don't see the changes made doing a huge difference to the scenario of last year."
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Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz said more should have been done to make the Jeddah circuit safer ahead of this weekend's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Having hosted the penultimate round of the 2021 season in December, the track is now hosting the second race of the 2022 season less than four months later.
Billed as the fastest street circuit in the world, the track was criticised last year for the number of blind high-speed corners, where the walls prevented drivers from seeing potential hazards ahead.
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Race organisers responded to those complaints by moving some of the walls back to improve the sightlines for drivers.
But according to Sainz, who finished second earlier this week in Bahrain, not enough has been done.
"I was commenting with Charles that they just moved the wall, but the driving line will still be close to the wall," he said.
"It means our visibility doesn't improve, which for me just shows that we need to keep making this relationship with the FIA tighter (and) better because we expected a step in the right direction.
"In my opinion this is not much better. It is marginally a very small tiny bit, smallest ever better."
Lewis Hamilton took pole position for last year's race with an average speed of 253 km/h, while Red Bull driver Sergio Perez called the track "dangerous".
Leclerc, who leads the world championship after winning the season-opening race, was also disappointed.
"It's going in the right direction, but I don't think it's enough, especially in the last part of the track from what I've seen," he explained.
"But the first part, from turn four to I think turn 12, it didn't change much with what was probably the most critical part."
"But I don't see the changes made doing a huge difference to the scenario of last year."
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