'Needs to be looked at': Mick Schumacher hits out after nasty crash

Haas Formula One driver Mick Schumacher has praised the safety features built into the current crop of F1 cars but insists discussions need to be had about the safety of the track in Saudi Arabia.

Schumacher was lucky to escape serious injury from a horror crash in qualifying for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, which Red Bull's Max Verstappen won after an epic tussle with Ferrari rival, Charles Leclerc.

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The 23-year-old Schumacher had to be lifted out of his wrecked Haas car after clipping a kerb and slamming into a wall in a frightening, high-speed incident in qualifying.

He was airlifted to hospital for precautionary tests, and later ruled out of Monday morning's (AEDT) race.

"I'm feeling alright," Schumacher said after being cleared of serious injury at the hospital.

"I think to be able to stand here with nothing really, not even sore, just shows the security and safety of these cars," he added.

The Jeddah street circuit is an uncompromising track, largely surrounded by concrete walls with very few run-off areas.

On a hot lap hoping to get through to Q3, Schumacher took too much of the kerb which speared his Haas into the wall.

Two tyres were completely ripped off the car in the impact, which was also enough to cause some serious structural damage to the car, which separated in the middle as it was later lifted onto a truck.

Schumacher had to be lifted out of the car, but was conscious and seen smiling before being taken to hospital.

"Coming to the curb I was 20 to 30 centimetres wide of where I wanted to be so the rear tyre dropped over the curb," Schumacher told Sky Sports.

"The moment we touch a curb we lose contact to the ground and that means there is nothing holding us back from spinning.

"I saw a few other guys have a similar issue, except they were able to catch it."

The 23-year-old admitted that the Saudi track - which only made its F1 debut last year - had some safety issues that definitely needed addressing.

Drivers questions safety of Saudi Arabia circuit

"I think there are things we have to have a look at. I don't know what happens in the future. But if so, we need to have a serious discussion about it."

Red Bull's Sergio Perez - who finished fourth in the race after securing the first pole of his career - called the Jeddah track the "most dangerous" of all those in the F1 calendar.

"I think it’s definitely the most dangerous place in the calendar, that’s no secret about it," Perez said.

“It really demands a lot from the drivers, from the cars, from the teams. If you get it wrong, it can be a huge accident.

“I don’t know if there’s something we can do into Turn 22/23 because it’s a really high-speed section.

"It’s more [dangerous] in the race, but I think it’s the same, after qualifying the last thing I want to think about is the track."

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz added: "Here if you crash, it hurts a bit more than in other places in the calendar because the walls are closer and the speed is higher.

“As drivers, we’re very confident here, because we know the safety of the cockpit is very high and when you see incidents like Mick’s, gives us a bit of tranquillity that at those speeds the car is protected because the FIA has done a great job in giving us very safe cockpits.

“But at the same time, is it really worth it having that huge accident when you could maybe hopefully push the walls a bit further out and it would give us a bit more space to slow down the car if we lose it?

“It’s a discussion that we need to have because it’s probably a bit on the limit.”

Schumacher insisted he felt "fit" to compete in the Saudi GP, with the German's absence put down to the need to preserve car parts for the Australian Grand Prix on April 10.

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