'A mistake can happen. But don't make the same mistake twice!'

A new (street) circuit on the F1 calendar is almost a guarantee that something will go wrong somewhere, no matter how thorough the other preparations were. In Las Vegas, it was only during the first free practice session that it came to light that some covers were not secure.

How does Formula 1 avoid losing face on a completely new track, like in Las Vegas? Perhaps a test race - by another racing class - would be a solution? "I think it's pretty hard on a street course, so you need to rely on your simulation and your experience and then the various inspections that they do. But as I mentioned before, I think what we need to do now is focusing on fixing the problem, which I'm very confident we'll we'll do," stated Zak Brown.

"There's a long way to go over the weekend. We'll put on a good show come race day and then look back and go what happened and how can we make sure that doesn't happen again. As they say mistakes happen, but don't make the same mistake twice, whatever that may be. First fix the issue and get the show back on the road," Brown said.

Vasseur advocates support races

Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur, who was still very angry earlier, said: "It has nothing to do with the incident of today, but I think on these kind of events, it would make sense also to have a support race to run the track before for the systems, for the yellow flag. It would make sense to have another category on track. I think that it could make sense to have another series on during the weekend to do a test session before it's quite impossible when it's a straight circuit."

Toto Wolff added his thoughts. "It's a problem that we've known before. It happens on new tracks. This one is a bit freakish because the concrete broke out, and they’re going to fix it and then from then on I think that it's going to be improved. Like Fred said, the marshalls need to learn the track, and we need to see where the car stops how quickly can you get a car off the track, and that will take a few years to really synchronise," the Mercedes team boss believed.