Parry blasts "ridiculous" GP3 cars after Spa crash

The Welshman, formerly a part of the Caterham Formula 1 squad's driver development scheme, was caught up in Aleksander Bosak's accident at Blanchimont as a wheel from the Pole's car rebounded into the middle of the track, where it was collected by Parry.

Speaking afterwards, the 21-year-old slammed series organisers for failing to learn from previous incidents where wheels have detached – such as when Henry Surtees was killed in an F2 race at Brands Hatch in 2009 after he was hit on the head by a loose wheel.

On the same day as Parry's crash, IndyCar driver Justin Wilson was struck on the head by debris from Sage Karam's car at Pocono, putting him in a coma.

"I was making pretty good progress, taking it easy and trying to save tyres, and then I came around Blanchimont and a tyre [from Bosak's car] was in the middle of the road," Parry told Motorsport.com.

"I don't know why the tyres can be ripped off so easily; that's a structural error from GP3, to be honest.

"It's ridiculous that in this day and age we can't have a system where the tyre stays intact; even my tyre came off. It's such a dangerous thing.

"We should have learned from other accidents – something needs to be done to try and sort the problem out," he concluded.

Interview by Benjamin Vinel