FIA uses the scythe: all pit stops equated with minimum time via technical guideline

The International Motorsport Federation FIA has launched new guidelines that will equate all pit stops with effect from the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The FIA ​​has made this known in a document that has been sent to the teams. In this, for example, a minimum time is set for the check that technicians would humanly need to secure a wheel safely and to check it. Under the guise of ‘safety’, it must be prevented that cars are sent away with, for example, a wheel that comes off halfway through the pit lane.

Safety

A minimum time is therefore set for certain actions, so that technicians can better check that the action has been performed correctly. This would increase security. The advantage that Red Bull has with their quick pit stops will disappear as a result.

Last week Helmut Marko already came up with the story that Mercedes would have complained about the equipment of Red Bull mechanics in the pit lane. The team of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez has been making the fastest pit stops for years, but will soon lose that advantage. Marko came up with the story that Mercedes would have complained about the pit stop equipment that Red Bull uses, and now it appears what exactly Marko was referring to.

Did Mercedes direct you to this?

It is generally assumed that the Mercedes team has seized the tightening of the rules under the heading ‘safety’ to prevent Max Verstappen from driving out of the pit lane for Lewis Hamilton, as he did last Sunday.

Catching up is art

It will therefore have to be mainly on the track again, so the banners that the Jos Verstappen fan club used to carry to the international circuits can be taken out again: they invariably had the well-known text on them. “Overtaking is an art”. The banners thus aptly described the way in which Jos Verstappen made himself so popular with many with his catching up skills. Son Max Verstappen will therefore have to show those overtaking skills again, now that overtaking via the pit lane will soon be a thing of the past due to this measure by the FIA.

The tightening of the technical regulations regarding pit stops will apply from the Hungarian Grand Prix.

How do you see this measure by the FIA ​​that is now being introduced under the guise of ‘increasing safety’?