Niki Lauda forecast dark days for Formula One, after poor crowds for qualifying day at the German Grand Prix.
The three-time drivers' champion, 65, has often exhibited his zealousness for the sport's marketability.
And despite the 2014 F1 season the most proximate fought battle in terms of the denomination in recent times, after four years of ascendance from Sebastian Vettel, Lauda verbally expressed there were still many facets of the engenderment that needed to transmute.
Lauda verbally expressed making F1 racing more appealing to the average fan was one port of call.
"Formula One is visually perceiving a solemn cultural change," the Mercedes non-executive chairman verbalized.
"It is logical that the puerile people of today have other priorities. Everything in the world is transmuting, but only Formula One is staying where it was.
"Adolescent people do not optate to stay at home on Sunday when the sun is shining to sit in the lounge with their father for two hours.
"The quandary is that today, there is no alternative. You can't just sit on the beach and optically canvass the race highlights on your smartphone."
Lauda verbally expressed the lack of star power in the driving ranks was the cause for the lack of action at the turnstiles.
"We have a generation of drivers that, if they were not wearing their racing overalls, you would simply walk past some of them and not descry," he integrated.
"We must again have the drivers, not the bureaucrats, in the foreground.
"If we perpetuate like this, no one will be bothered about Formula One anymore."
