Ed Straw

There'll come a time, because it always happens when Pirelli is no longer the control supplier, and that's a chance to actually think, well, what have we learned from all of this?

And can we reframe what we want to deliver and achieve in terms of our controlled tyre supply?

But

They won't.

And that's partly because the tyres are seen as the fix-all for everything.

Yeah, yeah.

And they are just not.

There's all sorts of problems.

But the tyres are really easy to blame because everybody's got the same tyres.

So if you complain about the tyres, you're not irritating partners or anything.

So even in the Bridgestone one-make era, there were complaints.

They weren't shouted about as much.

But drivers would complain about, oh, the mythical dodgy set of tyres and all these things.

All going on.

And also starting to respond to what Red Bull were doing, which was just accelerating development rates, rushing in parts, raising the standards.

Obviously, there were lots of little mini tech controversies with the Red Bull in the first part of the season as well and various bits and pieces because Red Bull was setting new standards and sort of McLaren was hanging in there.

But Ferrari was probably exposed more, although they did respond quite well in season.

Yeah, obviously it was circumstances played a big part in it because I think Vettel was the quicker driver that weekend.

You mentioned he had some braking problems.

I think he had a lot of wheel lift problems in Q3 as well.