CASEY Stoner, the MotoGP championship leader slated conditions at Donington throughout the weekend but he failed to turn up to the rider's safety meeting, says former champion, Valentino Rossi.
Stoner said: "It's so slippery, it's like riding on grease. I think the wet conditions here are a little bit dangerous, maybe too much dangerous, especially in a race.
"The old surface was pretty bad but nowhere near this. And now they've brought on this new surface, every year it has consistently got worse. With these long corners, and fast corners, something bad is going to end up happening.
"I think this circuit really needs to do something about it because it's becoming a little bit too dangerous, especially with these bikes. A lot more planes are coming into the airport and it has to be all the fuel and everything that they are dropping over the circuit. This is the only reason it can be so bad - there is just no traction.
"I raced in England for two years and this is probably one of the worst circuits I ever rode on."
Valentino Rossi and Loris Capirossi have criticised the younger riders for airing their views to the press but not turning up to the safety meetings in order to discuss the conditions and ways to improve safety for all involved.
Rossi told the press: "A lot of riders say aaahhh, this track is shit, but then at 5pm on a Friday, nobody comes. Never. They speak with the journalists, but never come to these meetings. Why, I don't know? It's open to everybody and if they want to come then we can try to fix the problem together."
The safety meetings are held every Friday, before a race weekend, but Stoner, one of the biggest critics of the circuit did not attend and does not feel it is his place to get involved with the organisation that runs the series.
"It's not my job, it is the job of the Safety Commission" said Stoner.
