Championship leader Nico Rosberg insists the newly introduced radio ban which derailed Lewis Hamilton's European Grand Prix does not need to change.
Rosberg re-established his 24-point advantage over Hamilton after he romped to victory in Azerbaijan, while his Mercedes team-mate was left baffled at how to solve an incorrect engine mode setting which deprived him of full power.
Hamilton could manage only fifth and subsequently called on the FIA, Formula One's governing body, to reconsider the rule which was introduced at the beginning of the season.
But ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix - a venue at which Rosberg has triumphed in each of the two races since it returned to the calendar in 2014 - the German said: "The fans were complaining that we were puppets on the track, and we were just doing what the engineers were telling us to do.
"This is why the rule changed, and they are okay the way they are now. It is more challenging for us out there.
"You need to make sure as a team and driver that the driver has all the options to handle everything on his own.
"Of course, is not easy to get it 100 per cent perfect, so that is why there are going to be problems, and that is what we got in Baku. That is what we wanted to achieve with these rules."
While Hamilton found immediate support in the paddock from Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel - with the latter describing the radio ban as "a joke" - as well as his Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, Jenson Button has also urged the FIA to keep faith with the new ruling.
"It was the first race where we have had any issues," Button, 36, said on Thursday. "The easiest thing is to make sure your car starts in the right mode.
"The regulations are the regulations, so you have to deal with them. You can't change them at every race."
Meanwhile, Rosberg, out of contract with Mercedes at the end of the season, says his head has not be turned by a potential vacancy at Ferrari.
With Kimi Raikkonen, the oldest driver on the grid, seemingly coming towards the end of his grand prix career, it is uncertain whether he will be retained by the famous Italian constructor beyond the current campaign.
But Rosberg, who joined the Silver Arrows in 2010, said: "Mercedes is just as legendary as Ferrari.
"I feel very much at home. This is my racing family here, and this is where I want to be for the foreseeable future."
Source: PA
