Fernando Alonso has called for more "consistency" in Formula One's rules going forward, after a number of alterations this season.
Rule changes have become a recurrent theme during 2016, with many either revised or completely ditched altogether. A new elimination-style qualifying format lasted just two races before being scrapped, while track limits and team radio communications are just some of the rules to have come under scrutiny in recent weeks.
Ahead of the German Grand Prix, a Strategy Group meeting led to the lifting of restrictions on team radio messages amid a plethora of complaints from teams and drivers, as well as the decision to red-flag qualifying sessions if there are double waved yellow flags -- following the controversy surrounding Nico Rosberg's pole lap in Hungary.
"Definitely it is not the normal way for our sport to keep changing rules," Alonso bemoaned. "Most of the time we go back to what we had two weeks ago, two months ago, two years ago.
"So we just wait and listen to the engineers, the team, what we are allowed to do, what we are not allowed to do every session, every qualifying, every race and that has been more or less the same thing for the last three or four months, because they keep changing all the time."
The double world champion stressed the importance of having stability in F1's rules and claimed that constant rule changes risk making the sport harder to follow for fans.
"We are always in a loop and from a driver point of view, we just try to be on the side of all these changes because we don't make them and we don't have these decisions in our hands.
"Hopefully now we can find some consistency but, for us, it is not a problem because it is our job but for the fans and the viewers it would be nice to have some consistency."