Pirelli: A tyre war would be expensive for F1

Isola told ESPN in an interview, "The direction of Formula 1 is still to have one supplier. Obviously what is changing quickly but the single supplier is saving money for everybody."

"If you introduce, again, what they call the 'tyre war' or multiple suppliers you have to consider that in the past it was necessary to have additional test sessions or in the past the teams had a proper tyre test team and obviously this means additional costs."

"If they want to reduce the cost, this is probably not the right direction,'' argued Isola.

Under Liberty Media Formula 1 is seeking to raise the bar on just about everything that is related to the sport which until the end of the Bernie Ecclestone era was living in the dark ages on just about every aspect.

Up until 2006 Michelin and Bridgestone competed at the highest level, with Pirelli becoming the sole supplier in 2011, taking over from Bridgestone who had been the sole supplier from 2007 until the end 2010.

Should the stakeholders allow another tyre supplier, Isola won't shy away from taking on a competitor in the top flight, "If they decide to come back to this situation as we said in the past, we are ready to face also this new challenge. It is a new challenge because if you're a sole supplier you have some targets."

"You supply the same tyres to everybody so you can have a tyre with high degradation, with different targets. If we are in competition with our tyre supplier the target is just performance. It is clear. It's like for teams."

"Their target is safety for sure but safety is a target, it's always there, it's always a priority but after that it's just performance,'' added Isola and as we all know "performance" comes at an escalating price.