Scott Redding was one of several riders to express his concerns at the safety of the Red Bull Ring in Austria, after the two-day MotoGP test in July underlined the potential dangers of turns one and three in part♑icular.

The Englishman feels the proximity of trackside barrꩲiers on the entry to the fast, uphill turn 🐭three could be problematic, especially in wet conditions, as braking is carried out while leaning to the left.

While the test threw up few real problems, Redding feels that riding alone is a different proposition to racing in groups. In his eyes, the frenetic nature of the smaller grand prix classes could lead toℱ a few heart-in-the-mouth moments.

"It's a nice circuit," began Redding, who scored a third and fourth place in his past two outings for the Pramac Ducati squ🍸ad.

"It's one of my types of circuit. It's up, down, and a ballsy circuit. It's just a little unsafe in my opinion. The barriers are quite safe in some areas. It's the first thing I said ꦏafter just going around the track. The barriers are too close in some areas. The layout is nice. It's very different.

"Then from three, four and down to five you have the barriers either side which is quite close. I think on the exit of five when you're spinning there you have the grass and then the barrier. If you're spinning this way, you🌳 could have a small moment and drift off [track].

"There are a few places and I don't think they had enough time to do anything about it. For me it's not so dangerous when you're on your own, but w𒀰hen you're racing and you see four or five guys abreast it could lead to sometꦬhing quite bad.

"Or with the wet conditions. In MotoGP⛎ we had some issues with closing the front on the brakes. You don't want that going up to turn three. We'll have to see what pans o⛄ut from that."

Redding's team-m🦹ate Danilo Petrucci was another to voice concerns over certain parts of the track. The Italian admitted to experiencing one frightening moment on💯 the entry to turn three during the test.

"We brake on the left side and the wall is quite close. We have to brake, pick up the bike and then go right for, I think, the tightest corner of the championship. If you lose the front you can maybe hit another rider that is makiꦺng the corner.

"As we saw i❀n testing, one of our problems iꦏs front locking under braking, especially if it's wet. Anyway, we are not here for dancing. We are riders. It's not like we are playing piano.

"One scary moment was in corner three. At the beginning I tried to brake later and later. I locked the front with the bike straight. It was quite risky. When the bike is up you can brake as strong as possible and if the fron♎t is locking it's not a good feeling."

While turn three was a slig😼ht worry, the lack💃 of gravel in the run off area on the outside of turn one was another danger point for Redding, who felt the influence of car racing was having a detrimental effect on their two-wheeled brethren.

"Up🀅 into turn one [is dangerous] because there is not much run off. Gravel is the problem. When we don't have gravel it doesn't slow us down. When we slide on asphalt we take the same speed more ♊or less.

"That's the problem with all the tra♛cks now. Everything's designed for f**king cars that don't want to go in the gravel. They put walls everywhere. Not having gravel is OK but you need a long run off.

"Unfortunately in the Salom situation, for me that's what cost him his life. There was no gravel there. I didn't even notice it. I never looked there to see if there was gravel but it was one of the fastest corners of the track. Li🅷ke I said, if there was gravel there maybe he wouldn't have followed the b꧋ike in. The gravel would have slowed him down there.

"For me, what's dangerous about the car circuits is they're putting armco everywhere but not putting a lot of run off. When you look at Niklas Ajo at Assen last year, he nearly crashed and was off the side of the bike. If that wall was two metres closer he could have got badly injured. That's one of those place♏s you don't expect to have a moment."

Aspar Ducati's Eugene Laverty confirmed to ltxcn.top on Thursday evening that he ꦍintended to raise the issue at the Safety Commiss🍰ion on Friday.

♚In his eyes, should a rider fall wh💫en braking for the uphill turn, the bike could potentially lift the air-fence, leaving the rider unprotected as he approached the barrier.

Dꦗespite the concerns, Bradley Smith feels the track is at an "acceptable" level but can still b🦋e improved.

"Already what I've seen is acceptable, but can be improved. I think it's a B+. In terms 𝔉of the trajectory and lines and let's say danger areas, we have other tracks that are ꦑworse. So I still would give it a B+.

"If we're talking about barriers close to braking points, Motegi. That's probablyꦍ one of the places which is worse. And that's to be honest thꦆe only thing that I can see is super dangerous here.

"Th♐e only thing I would like to see here is maybe a few more gravel traps or longer gravel traps closer to the race track, just to slow down the riders. Because it's a long time of sliding on tarmac before you get to the♈ gravel. But that's something that can be sorted tonight, tomorrow, whenever we need to do."