Pirelli has deflected driver complaints about the quality of Formula 1’s rain tyres back onto the teams. “We are forced to go on the intermediates because the rain tyres are junk – sorry, not so good. “We are all responsible for that, but we have an intermediate that is so much faster than the wet tyre. “I’m very happy to do a few test days to try all different kinds of tyres because we need better rain tyres. “We only have one compound for the rain tyres and one for the intermediates,” he said. “Honestly we don’t have many opportunities to test the rain and intermediate tyres,” he insists. “We work with the FIA and the teams, but if we don’t have the opportunity to test the tyres then we don’t have the opportunity to develop them either.”.

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