• Microw@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    When it comes to pitstops, there are two philosophies:

    A. Do them as quick as possible. For that to work, you need your parts to be manifactured a certain way so everything can be done fast.

    B. Do them as safe as possible. Thats what Merc are going for, and they have optimzed their processes and parts/Tools to do perfect pitstops that are not as quick.

    • tankplanker@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The thing is, even Ferrari haven’t fucked up hardly ever with their faster stops this season, its no longer that faster means mistakes are a regular occurrence.

      We saw in 21 that the FIA introduced rule changes around pit stops to make them slower, and for a time this reduced the delta Merc had to the other teams but its grown again, partly as Merc seem to have gotten slower.