Formula One should change the rules to prevent drivers being allowed to put fresh tyres on their cars if a race is halted like Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix, Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery has suggested.
“I can understand there is a safety consideration but I am thinking about it more from a fans’ perspective to be honest,” Hembery told autosport.com.
“I’ve had a lot of people shout at me from the boats around the harbour and say, why were they allowed to change? It took away something from the race — and the big question was could they (the tyres) have lasted?
“That is what we were all asking with six laps to go and that was going to be the excitement: would Sebastian hit the cliff of tyre degradation?”
“I don’t really understand why they are allowed to change tyres, but maybe I am missing something,” he said.
