Mark Webber has weighed in on the racism issue that hit F1 at Barcelona two weeks' ago, saying the individuals and not the countries should be punished.
Following racial abuse aimed at Lewis Hamilton during the recent test at Spain's Circuit de Catalunya, the FIA threatened sanctions against the country.
FIA President Max Mosley added that he could "pull the grands prix" if the Spanish organisers didn't put an end to racial incident during tests and their two grands prix.
However, Australian driver Webber believes punishing the country is not the way to resolve the issue.
"If we are professional and organised, that stuff just doesn't get to the front line," Webber told BBC Sport.
"The individuals need to be punished but to take it out on the whole sport and the country is wrong.
"It can be stopped so much further downstream.
"There were a few guys who were absolutely out of order, and that's what the whole thing has been hung on.
"You had a lot of fans who were there with their young kids on a Sunday, so why should you stuff it all for them because of a few guys?
"We need to address it further back. You do not want airport security at a grand prix, where people are checking your bag for excessive amounts of make-up.
"So how do you draw the line? It's difficult. They need to be able to control the individuals and move on as they do in other cases."
Webber added that he believes the recent attacks on Hamilton had little to do with racism. Instead he feels it had more to do with the Spanish fans being angry at the Brit for what they see as the unfair treatment of Fernando Alonso during their time together at McLaren.
"We have two races in Spain - one in Barcelona and one in Valencia," the Red Bull driver said.
"They will be extremely well attended and the fans won't like Lewis and probably won't for a long time, but that's the way they are.
"They didn't like Michael (Schumacher) either.
"Obviously, there is a racism angle because Lewis is black, and they will draw on that and that's something they will use to get under people's skin. But you just have to figure out a way not to let that happen."