Shit Arrivabene looking mad

Ah, you're arguing a specific pedantic point in a specific pedantic way, I didn't realise. Normally when people disagree with evidence someone mentions they would just say "Yea, I've seen the interview you mean and you're wrong, he doesn't actually say that", rather than pretending they haven't seen it and demanding a link while implying the other person is lying. I.e. your style is abnormal and will lead to confusion

You're right though, he definitely doesn't say "we told them not to do a one stop" in his interviews. He also definitely doesn't say "we told them not to shoot their driver in the head", or "we told them not to try driving with only two wheels on the car", or "here's an infinite list of the things that aren't possible to do, that we told them not to do"

But if you're just looking for sources of information on the obvious and what all other teams already seem to have known; that a one stopper wasn't on the cards then here are three

  • All of Coulthard's post race commentary is one source

  • Eddie Jordan says he asked Hembery before the race if a one stop was possible and the response was "no chance". Hembery himself says they weren't even aware that Ferrari would try a one stop and he was surprised.

  • Lauda rhetorically asks if it was safe to try a one stop (meaning it wasn't) and that if you take the risk and it doesn't work out then why complain (meaning why is Vettel complaining) and that Ferrari just needs to do better (meaning that strategy wasn't realistic and was a bad decision and that's why the tyre wore out)

They're all in the BBC after-race coverage. Coulthard's is all the way through the discussion, Jordan's is about 2:53:28 on the iPlayer, Lauda is just after

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