“It was rushed after Melbourne because there was not a lot of overtaking, when has there ever been a lot of overtaking in Melbourne, and then we’ve had three great races since then.”

Horner feels alterations to circuits should have become the area of focus to improve racing having felt the past three races in Bahrain, China and Azerbaijan have all producing exciting action after the initial fears from Australia.

“Shouldn’t we be looking at the tracks and the tyre compounds and how they influence races rather than burdening the teams with what will be hundreds of millions in costs,” he said. “If you look at the nature of the circuits, long straights with big stops and hairpins like China, Baku and Bahrain they were all good races. Those types of circuits always produce good races.

“This will probably be a boring race on Sunday [in Spain] because this track even with the slowest corner into the hairpin is still pretty quick and you’ve got a fast corner going into it.

“I find it frustrating that decisions are made on zero evidence or zero conclusions on theories and the burden of costs are passed on to the teams. Is it going to guarantee closer racing, and cars following closer next year, probably not.”

The 2019 rule changes were voted through by the F1 Commission last week which is believed to have split opinions but any proposals require a majority decision rather than unanimous backing.