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Mercedes: We are losing time in the pit stops

 Formula 1 World Champions Mercedes have recognised they need to speed up their pit stops as they wage a tight battle with archrivals Red Bull, who happen to have the fastest crew in the pitlane. Although they managed the fastest stop of last Sunday's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, changing the wheels on Valtteri Bottas's car in 2.24 seconds in a wet pitlane, they have also lost time with costly errors. Sunday was the first time since 2018, 42 races ago, that Mercedes had topped the DHL fastest pit stop list. 'It is fair to say that we're not the best,' trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said on Wednesday in a weekend race debrief on the Mercedes website. 'We are losing...
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