Mercedes have finally stopped the clock on Valtteri Bottas’s Monaco Grand Prix tyre change after removing a stuck wheel from his car two days after it forced his retirement.
The Formula One champions posted a video on Thursday of a crouching mechanic freeing up the front right wheel with special equipment at the factory at 9:59 A.M. on Tuesday.
« The job’s done. Onwards and upwards from here, » Mercedes added on Twitter. « All eyes on Baku to come back smarter and stronger. »
It normally takes about a second and a half to remove a nut, change a wheel and put a new nut on.
« The margin for error is very small and if just the slightest problem happens, it slows the stop down or potentially, in an absolute disastrous case, this happens, » head of strategy James Vowles said in a debrief.
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