Hill complains of regulations and 'impossible' car

The ex-world champion said the current rules were taking the sport 'down a blind alley'.

And the Williams technical director, once Hill's team boss, said Bridgestone were being asked to make 'lousy tyres'.

He added, 'We are chasing these cars to very narrow widths. These are not natural racing cars. They are being strangled because the wrong part of it is being attacked. '

The Jordan driver said he would willingly pass his opinions to FIA president Max Mosley and urged team bosses to reconvene a meeting planned for this weekend that has been cancelled.

'I am not happy with the regulations as far as the pleasure of driving point of view,' said Hill in Barcelona.

'The cars are very, very difficult to get right. That's not to say they are wrong because we are all faced with the same engineering problem.'

He said the cars were too dependent on their aerodynamics and most drivers and designers agreed the rules had to be changed.

'I find them really frustrating. Today was a good example. We had a test last week here and there was no wind. I was very happy with my car.

'I come here for the Grand Prix the wind is blowing and my car is bloody impossible to drive. It's just ridiculous. There's a cross wind of 10kph and they are all so dependant on the aerodynamics that it throws a real spanner in the works.

'I really believe we have come down a blind alley here and we cannot keep reducing tyre grip and we need to have along hard look at the regulations and what we are doing to the cars and make them more fun to drive and more exciting.

'We need to backtrack and take a different route. To my mind we need to put a greater emphasis on tyre grip and reduce aerodynamic grip.'

Stewart driver Rubens Barrichello said the hard compound tyres meant the cars slide much further than they used to.

He said his accident at Monaco at the Swimming Pool complex proved that because his car would have stopped far sooner on slicks.