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Mercedes realise pit stops remain a weakness

Andrew Shovlin, Mercedes' trackside engineering director, accepts that the team have work to do in the pit stop department. Mercedes have never been a team that chase the record-breaking times in the pits, instead focusing on consistent, quick stops. But so far in 2021 there have been a couple of hiccups, most notably at the season opener in Bahrain where a slow stop saw Valtteri Bottas lose any hope of victory, while an issue with a pit stop gun'extended Sir Lewis Hamilton's time in the pit lane at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. And Shovlin admitted that this is still an area where Mercedes are 'not the best'. “Well it is fair to say that we're not the best,' he said in Mercedes' Imola...
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