Ferrari and Pirelli are set for clear-the-air talks at Monza ahead of the Italian Grand Prix following Sebastian Vettel's scathing attack on the tyre manufacturer in Belgium.
Vettel's tyre blowout on the penultimate lap at Spa, and the post-race rant which followed, led to a war of words between Ferrari and Pirelli over what caused the failure. Ferrari defended its optimistic one-stop strategy, saying it only implemented it with Pirelli's blessing, though the tyre manufacturer says the team simply kept Vettel's medium tyres on for too long.
As ESPN's Final Stint explained on Monday, there is scepticism in the paddock around Pirelli's official explanation that Vettel's blowout was a "wear issue". Hembery reiterated Pirelli's staunch defence this week and suggested the tyre manufacturer will press ahead with its vetoed 2013 plans to introduce lap limits for tyres.
"We're always the stupid ones," Hembery is quoted as saying by Germany publication Bild. "The engineers push the cars to narrower limits, at the expense of the tyres. We must now consider whether to impose a limit on the number of laps for each compound."
Hembery went on to explain he wishes to "clear the air" with Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene and technical chief James Allison.
"Our aim is to always have a good cooperation with Ferrari. So we'll sit down at a table and find the solution."
Tyres are likely to be a hot topic of discussion at the high-speed Monza circuit. Vettel's blowout at Spa came just two days after Nico Rosberg suffered a high-speed failure which Pirelli said had been caused by an "external cut", though the German driver did not seem satisfied with that explanation.