Vettel convinced Pirelli taking failures seriously

Sebastian Vettel says he has been impressed by Pirelli's response to the tyre failures seen at the Belgian Grand Prix.

The Ferrari driver slammed Pirelli after his right rear tyre failed on the penultimate lap at Spa-Francorchamps, saying he wasn't happy with the reasons given for Nico Rosberg's failure two days previously. With Pirelli investigating the failures and releasing its findings at Monza on Thursday, Vettel says he has been pleased with the reaction since Belgium.

"It has been very professional, the way it was handled," Vettel said. "It was taken very seriously. And obviously our target is to improve the situation. I think it’s natural that you always try to improve your product.

"I think if you look at the cars, if you talk about the cars today, the cars are quick and so on, and the cars are safe. They’re surely safer than they have been 30 years ago but there is still room for making them safer: we still have accidents and so on and still some things can happen.

"It’s a one-way street: you want to make progress and keep making progress. So I think that’s more important than any sort of press release, the feeling that I got when I spoke to the engineers and spoke to Pirelli."

With Pirelli issuing strict guidelines on tyre pressures and cambers for this weekend's Italian Grand Prix, when asked if he felt the situation was now more acceptable, Vettel says such incidents need to be prevented in future.

"Well, I think it is not acceptable to have a blow-out at that sort of speed, out of the blue and I think that’s what I said also after the race, so there’s nothing really to add.

"But, as I said before, I think the investigations that have been going on, the stuff that obviously has been analysed and talked about, explains some of it, maybe not all of it yet but it’s still ongoing and obviously, as I said, the most important thing is that we make sure that we make progress. At the moment, from Pirelli’s side, it looks very very professional, they handle it with extreme care, and I think things are going the right way."