Marko continued: “If we have to do something extra due to the greater competitiveness of Ferrari and McLaren, we are naturally handicapped. If there is another crash, not everything will be there for both cars.”

Christian Horner was also unhappy with how the race panned out for his team, saying: “Obviously this race is won on a Saturday and that’s where we had a poor day. We need to understand that, understand what the issues were with the ride and the kerbs.

“We saw [the same weakness] in Singapore last year as well, so we’ve had another example of that. We know it’s an area of the car we need to work on. It was a very static race, the top 10 finished where they started from, the red flag effectively killed the race because everybody was going to run to the end of the race, so we have some lessons to take out of this weekend and learn from obviously.”