The Formula One strategy group will discuss the sport's complex rules in Geneva later this week.
Complaints about the rules were a key talking point during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, in particular the yellow flags during qualifying which led to a heated discussion between Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Roberg after the race.
"Rules are rules," their boss, Toto Wolff, insisted. "If Lewis raised this issue, it is only because there are too many rules. We need to do something to reduce the amount of rules and make them simpler and easier."
Meanwhile, Kimi Raikkonen was not happy that the stewards took no action over Max Verstappen's defensive driving.
"Why do we even have rules," Raikkonen said to Finnish television MTV, "if they decide 'This is ok', 'This is not'?
"It is one of the things with F1 today that needs to change. It just looks bad and it's not fair. If there is a rule, it should be applied exactly the same way each time."
"The rules," argued team boss Maurizio Arrivabene, "have become too complex where they should be clear and simple.
"This issue has already been put on the agenda of the next strategy group meeting, because we want to race, not sit buried in all sorts of documents," he added.
F1 veteran Jenson Button fumed that it was a "joke" that he was instructed how to fix a problem with his car's hydraulics.
"Stopping an incident should be praised, not penalised," he protested. "The sport's got a long way to go before it's good again."
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