Domenicali: It would be criminal not to take this opportunity

Domenicali, who is now the CEO of Lamborghini, suggested the financial uncertainty the coronavirus has caused for many of F1's teams should be the impetus to push forward with significant reform the sport sorely needs.

"This is a take it or leave it opportunity and you cannot leave it, you need to take it," he told Autosport.

"Otherwise the risk will be very high of it not returning to be the platform it was.

"We mustn't forget that if I look at the number of tickets that were sold for the grands prix that were due to take place up to now, they were incredibly high.

"This was the situation before the crisis and it's the duty of all the stakeholders to ensure that this kind of attention will be there after the crisis."

For Domenicali, that means the FIA must be willing to use its new 'safeguard' clause at its first opportunity, which will be the World Motor Sport Council meeting in June.

"I think that it would be criminal not to take this opportunity to revisit the points we know we need to improve," he said.

"Therefore we are really working in these weeks to make sure we can present to the FIA World Council in June, ideas that we were discussing but always postponing because the system was accepting that when the [economic] situation was really good.

"Now we need to take it on board, knowing that if we miss this slot it would be criminal."

Furthermore, Domenicali hopes the entire motorsport industry can use this as "an opportunity to reshape" itself for the future.

"There's no doubt that motorsport will be an essential part into the future, but short term we need to revisit the level of investment and maybe the level of technology and the number of championships.

"We need to have a baseline zero to consider how we build back up, considering that over the next couple of years the situation will improve and motorsport will remain a very important platform for our industry."