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"That big yellow thing, don't touch it when you are in a Formula One car," Haas F1's French driver Romain Grosjean told reporters after first inspections of the street circuit. "It looks like a taking-off ramp."

Mercedes's triple world champion Lewis Hamilton, a former Monaco winner, said he was not sure why the kerbs were changed while teammate Valtteri Bottas described them as "quite extreme".

Force India's Mexican driver Sergio Perez added: "I think the one we had before was big enough and if you hit it, it would send you to the wall. So I think this one will probably send you to the grandstand."

Britain's Jolyon Palmer, who has yet to score a point this season with Renault, provided an alternative perspective.

"It's not as big as the walls that are around the outside of most other corners. So I think we'd prefer to have a kerb like that than a wall," he said.

Reuters