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Toto Wolff believes that Formula One has become "over-cautious" since Jules Bianchi's death.
The sport has faced criticism recently after the British Grands Prix was started behind the safety car in wet conditions, and yesterday's Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying session was also delayed due to the weather.
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However, unlike two weekes ago, Mercedes boss Wolff backed the calls to delay qualifying yesterday.
"There was too much water," he said. "But Silverstone was another case," Speed Week quotes Wolff as saying. "I would have done a few laps behind the safety car then a normal start.
"But because of the Bianchi accident we are perhaps in some situations a little over-cautious at the moment," he added.
Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko agreed, but thinks that the switch to faster and more aggressive cars for 2017 is a positive step.
"Formula one fans need to say 'That's something I won't do myself'. It got so popular because risk was a part of the sport," he said. "This safety that we have now is nonsense. And this idiocy with the Halo system will completely destroy formula one."
"These tarmac run-off areas and the crazy idea with kerbs that smash suspension and now driving over the white line with one, two, three or four wheels -- it has nothing to do with racing. So many things are wrong," he insisted.
When asked about world champion drivers campaign for improved safety, Marko fired: "(Jenson) Button, who earns 10 million, should retire."
"Safety is all well and good, but it cannot be that skiing is more dangerous than formula one," he added.
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