Commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone will ultimately decide who gets the contract and while it may come down to other factors, safety concerns cannot be ignored. While some questioned Ferrari's aggressive strategy in trying to get Vettel to the finish on just one stop, others felt the tyres should have been able to last. Certainly, Vettel was overheard remonstrating with Pirelli motorsport head Paul Hembery after the race: "Forty laps, you told us," he said. Pirelli issued a subsequent statement to point out that, after a spate of six failures at the 2013 British Grand Prix, their request for a maximum number of laps to be allowed on the same set of tyres had been rejected. "These conditions, if applied today at Spa, would have limited the maximum number of laps on the medium compound to 22," it added. Vettel had done 28. IS TYRE WEAR REALLY TO BLAME?