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Red Bull's world championship leader Max
Verstappen and Aston Martin's Lance Stroll both suffered
blowouts during the June 6 race in Baku, fortunately without
injury. Verstappen's cost the Dutchman a race win.
Pirelli has indicated both teams were running the tyres on lower
pressures than expected, while respecting the manufacturer's
starting parameters and not doing anything illegal.
Lower tyre pressures bring more grip and increased performance.
A technical directive (TD) has been issued ahead of this
weekend's French Grand Prix with the minimum tyre pressures
boosted.
"It was a very interesting sequence of events this week with the
TD coming out and seeing the carefully chosen words in the press
releases and in the statements from all parties involved," said
McLaren team boss Andreas Seidl.
"What is a bit disappointing for us is that there is not more
transparency in what actually happened because it was a
safety-critical topic, what happened there in Baku, and normally
in cases like that there is transparency."
Seidl said the regulations had been clear before Baku and there
was a reason why Pirelli issued teams with minimum tyre
pressures.
Asked what specifically he needed to know, Seidl said a lot of
assumptions had been made about what actually happened.
"There's a lot of criticism up in the air also towards Pirelli
but in the end that's not something we would support from our
side because I think Pirelli has produced a safe product for
this year," he added.
"In Baku, if you were running the car within the regulations and
following the prescriptions from Pirelli there was no issue with
the tyres."
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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