F1 stars Mark Webber and Jarno Trulli are the latest drivers to voice concern at the standard of safety at F1 tests.

Last week, Scottish veteran, David Coulthard, voiced his concern that safety standards at F1 tests fall way too short of those at Grands Prix, even though drivers are running at the same speeds and completing more laps.

Speaking on Thursday, Webber and Trulli voiced their concerns.

"All the GPDA (Grand Prix Drivers' Association) members are concerned about it," said the Italian, "we raised this problem and discussed it several times because we really believe the safety during testing is not good enough, or not as good as during the races, and we really are wanting to push the teams, the FIA and everyone to raise the safety standard during testing, because I cannot see why we shouldn't have the same safety standard.

"The risk is exactly the same, or even a little more, because we are doing a lot more laps during testing days than we do during a race weekend, so we really have to take a look at this matter."

"Absolutely," added the Australian. "I think it started off with Ralf's crash last year at Indianapolis. Obviously it (the car) finished in a difficult position for them to recover that situation, being on the front straight with two pit walls and the whole thing with Indy, the banking, and that raised a few issues for us as drivers so we thought we would ask Max, to start with, how they would improve things.

"Now, together with the FIA, we are looking to up the standards, like Jarno said," he continued. "Clearly, we have a lot of enthusiastic marshals who give all their time day after day, they are bloody long days testing for those guys, they stand out there in the winter and in the boiling heat in the summer, but in terms of the medical back-up, compared to what we have at races, which is absolutely full-on at races, the drivers are very well looked after, but in testing, when we are testing new components and doing a huge volume of mileage, I think we are definitely a bit shallow on the back-up. So, it needs to be addressed quite quickly and I am sure it will be.

"All the drivers are together on it, and that is one thing, and we have also singled out some tracks in general which we want to improve safety as well, and that is very important for the drivers at the moment."

Earlier this week, Pitpass revealed that a British organization had approached the FIA, regarding this very topic, several years ago, but that the issue was never followed up.