Arrivabene:

He insisted there was no warning from Pirelli during the race of any potential problem.

“All the teams have an engineer from Pirelli, and what do you think that engineer is doing?” Arrivabene said.

“He’s not there to chew chewing gum, he’s there to check the tyres and to read the data from the team.”

“It was our main plan before the race. We decided that at 11 o’clock this morning,”

“The strategy was absolutely right,” he said.

“I want to clear that up immediately, because when we do the strategy we have the data, and the data is based on the strategy.

“Seb is of course disappointed. When you have one and a half laps and you can see the third position on the podium and you are going to lose it suddenly of course you are disappointed.

“But I tell you the strategy normally, even if aggressive, is based on clear data.

“We are not so stupid or crazy to take a risk for the driver if you are not reading quite well the data.”