Formula 1 will make rule changes to prevent a recurrence of the events at last Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix, motorsport boss Jean Todt says.
Lewis Hamilton said the event, called off in heavy rain, was a “farce”.
A result was declared after drivers were sent out for two laps behind the safety car.
Todt, the president of governing body the FIA, said the rules would be reviewed “to see what can be learned and improved”.
The matter will be discussed at a meeting of the F1 Commission on 5 October.
The F1 Commission is a group of senior figures who decide and vote on rule changes before they are formalised by the FIA World Council, the sport’s legislative body.
Heavy rain had prevented any competitive racing at the Spa-Francorchamps track.
The event dragged on for three and a half hours as the FIA sought to find a window in which a race could be run in the heavy rain, but poor visibility meant conditions were deemed too dangerous to let the cars loose.
F1’s rules dictate two racing laps is the minimum for points to be awarded. These were completed behind the safety car at 18:17 local time and Max Verstappen declared the winner.
Todt insisted that officials had tried to run the race.
“The weather windows predicted by the forecasters did not appear throughout the day, and while a small window did appear late in the day, during which there was an attempt to start the race, conditions quickly worsened again,” he said.
“Therefore, due to the lack of visibility created by the spray behind the cars, we could not run the full race in sufficiently safe conditions for the drivers, marshals as well as the brave spectators who waited for many hours in the rain, for whom I am very sorry.”
A number of other leading drivers have criticised events surrounding the race.
McLaren Racing chief executive officer Zak Brown has called for a change of rules that govern this type of situation.
And on Monday, Alfa Romeo said the event should have been abandoned without trying to make the result of the race official.
“The decision not to race in the conditions was the right one, in the interests of protecting the safety of the drivers, the marshals and the spectators themselves,” Alfa Romeo said.
“However, the situation would have been dealt with a lot more appropriately by not having at all the ‘race’ we witnessed.
“This outcome hurts us all, but in particular it hurts the fans of the sport, who didn’t get the show they came to see.
“We hope lessons were learned, lessons that will improve the way we operate in the future and that put the supporters of our sport in the position they deserve to be.”
