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McLaren support FIA’s new pit-stop directive

McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl is fully behind the FIA's decision to restrict the use of automated systems in pit stops. Formula 1's governing body announced that as of the Hungarian Grand Prix, teams must build a tolerance into their pit stops to allow for human reaction time. These will be 0.15s from the wheels being observed as tight to the jack man returning the car to the ground, and 0.2s from the jacks being removed to the driver getting the go signal to exit their pit box. The changes came as a surprise to some with no specific incidents having taken place to prompt such a move, but Seidl believes the FIA have done the right thing by acting before anything happened. And in a...
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