Safety Must be Improved, Says Schumacher

World champion Michael Schumacher wants safety in Formula One to be improved following Brazilian Luciano Burti's horrific crash at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday.

"There's no 100 per cent safety in Formula One but we must do everything to reduce the risk as much as possible," the Ferrari driver, who won the race at Spa-Francorchamps, said on Tuesday on his personal website.

"Therefore, it is important to draw findings from the analysis of the (Burti) crash and to translate them into measures."

Burti escaped serious injury when his Prost car hit the tyre wall at an estimated 240 km/h after clipping the rear of Eddie Irvine's Jaguar. The Prost team said he is showing good signs of recovery, but he remains in hospital on Tuesday with concussion and bruising to his head.

Schumacher, who won a record 52nd Grand Prix in his Ferrari on Sunday, said he did not celebrate properly because of Burti's accident.

"The evening after the race we sat together with my father, his partner and a couple of friends, but this time we could not really celebrate on the track," he said. "You can't be in party mood when you know that only a few kilometres away, a colleague is in hospital."

The German driver, who has already won the drivers' title for a fourth time this year, dismissed suggestions that re-writing the record books was not that important to him.

"Many people get me wrong when I say that such statistics are not my first priority," he said. "They think that they don't mean anything to me. It is not so. To lead the all-time list does make me feel a bit proud. I'm obviously delighted."