We all know how the British Grand Prix ended. The whole Formula one community witnessed the horrible tyre drama where in Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Carloz Sainz suffered tyre failures. However, Lewis Hamilton was lucky enough to reach the chequered flag with a pole position in hand.
The problems with the tyre setup resulted in the FIA further reducing downforce levels for 2021 in order to help Pirelli deal with increased load capacity. The FIA issued an initial 5% cut with a change to the floor rules earlier in the year.
Pat Symonds stated, "In addition to the changes in the downforce, aero changes have now been agreed. Including the earlier modification, they add up to a 10% reduction.
Symonds added, "I think that our primary concern is to have good racing, and good racing requires that we have safety so the moves that have been made, which we've been fully involved with all the way, I think, are very pragmatic.
"The events of Silverstone may have been very dramatic, but they're not really what we want to make dramatic races here. A lot of other things that can provide dramatic racing without that sort of level of drama."
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Although the FIA has considered to make the changes, its head of single-seater technical matters Nikolas Tombazis says that its unnecessary to blame Pirelli, as the Italian company didn't expect its 2019 tyres to be used for three seasons.
"I'd just like to stress that safety doesn't in any way imply that the tyres are not safe," he said.
"The car and tyres are a unit, a single unit working together. We will have the tyres next year for the third consecutive year, which is an anomaly, of course, because of the COVID crisis, and because of the very intense race schedule that we have now, which has made any testing impractical for new constructions.
"And in the meantime, we have the aerodynamic teams of each F1 team working hard to make the cars more competitive, and finding downforce.
"So that's the reason for our intervention, and it's and we believe that's more or less going to make sure that next year's cars are going to have slightly lower downforce than this year ,but not a huge amount less after all the development.
"And therefore, we will be a bit safer than this year, but certainly a lot safer than we would be if we had done no intervention at all."
