In the aftermath of a dramatic finish to this year's Belgian Grand Prix, Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel was understandably frustrated with Formula One's tyre supplier Pirelli after a failure cost him important points in the race for the title.
The four-time world champion, who sits in third place in the Drivers' World Championship standings, described the dramatic failure as "unacceptable", just a lap before the end of the race itself.
Tyre issue a problem that needs resolving
Unfortunately, this isn't the first tyre failure of the weekend - Nico Rosberg's Mercedes car had the same issue during Friday's practice session. On the incident, Sebastian said that "these things are not allowed to happen", and that as a result, if the problem happened 200 metres earlier, he wouldn't be "standing here now."
Lewis Hamilton lead from start-to-finish in Spa to victory, but he was also one of the high-profile drivers who raised concerns as to the safety of tyres following their media briefing on Friday evening.
The company's motorsport director, Paul Hembery, blamed the tyre issue on excessive wear - as Vettel was the only driver who attempted a one-stop strategy during the race. However, Vettel was adamant that his team were told beforehand they could do 40 laps on that specific tyre, although it failed rather dramatically after 28 laps.
Vettel firmly believes issue needs swift solution
Hembery stated that the tyre was "at the end of wear life" and when you utilise the tyre so much that it gets to its wear life, "you're going to have a problem."
Despite this though, Vettel said the drivers would have a meeting ahead of the next race in Monza. The 28-year-old German admitted that "we[the drivers] need to speak to each other", because the issue at hand is "not acceptable."
His compatriot, and Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg echoed his comments - saying that the incident was "pretty scary again." He also stated that somehow, they need to make it safer, so possibly the drivers get to see an indication of when the tyre is failing earlier so they can retify it and reduce the likelihood of more incidents.
Lotus driver Romain Grosjean, who did remarkably well to finish in third position, admitted that it's "certainly not acceptable to see a tyre blow off", especially at the speed it was going.
The focus will be on the spectacle of driving in itself, but a main factor that needs to be taken into consideration is undoubtedly the drivers' safety after all, because if they feel they are not being protected, we could easily see tenative racing or even a boycott until things improve. Negative publiclity of the sport is never very far away, and it's a shame that an exciting race has been marred by an incident - which could have easily been resolved and cut out before it happened.