Mercedes-Benz Motorsport chief Norbert Haug insists the team won't use the new Pirelli tyres as an excuse if they don't to live up to expectations this season.
The Brackley-based team failed to justify their pre-season favourites tag last year and finished a distant fourth in the Constructors' Championship. Michael Schumacher's inability to come to grips with the Bridgestone tyres was apparently one of the reasons for the struggles.
However, the playing field will be level this year when it comes to rubbers as Pirelli has taken over from Bridgestone as F1's tyre supplier.
"The tyres are the same for everybody and at the end of the day you need to live with it," Haug told Autosport. "You cannot blame the tyres.
"We know about our shortcomings from 2010 and we want to do a better job. You can say 'we cannot extract the best from the tyres', which we could say last year, but we could not blame Bridgestone for that.
"You can blame your car, you can blame your set-up, you can blame everything that is built around the tyres. But you cannot blame the tyres."
Credit: PlanetF1.com (www.planetf1.com)
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