Montreal boss hints at track changes

Several drivers were highly critical of the circuit after the surface crumbled in several areas during qualifying. Track repairs overnight and in the build-up to the race eased the problem during the GP, but did not completely resolve the issue.

The track's executive vice president Francois Dumontier said the problem would be investigated in collaboration with the FIA, and suggested that the Turn 10 hairpin - one of the corners most seriously affected - could be realigned for the future.

"The problem seems to be in the curves," Dumontier told autosport.com.

"We'll look at the hairpin, and the configuration of the hairpin. We'll look seriously at it with the FIA."

Dumontier admitted that the track owners were taken aback by the problems with the surface, having thought it had been successfully resolved after similar incidents in previous seasons.

"We had the same problem last year, since 2005 in fact, so after last year we took a serious look at what product to put there, and we really thought that what we installed was good enough to hold for the weekend," he said.

"So we were pretty upset with what happened in qualifying, and we'll have to go back again and see what we can do. We'll look at what other tracks are doing, and see if we can use the same kind of product."

He believes the Montreal track is uniquely hard to maintain both because it uses public roads, and because of the extreme weather conditions seen in the region.

"We're the only racetrack that goes from plus-30 in the summer to minus-30 in the winter," Dumontier said. "The asphalt is affected by that, and the track is used a lot by buses and cycles all the time, so there's something there."