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Ferrari identifies wheel nut issue to fix for 2021

Ferrari says it has identified a problem associated with the wheel nut and hopes to remedy a fix for 2021 after accepting it has suffered several pit stop failures this season. Sebastian Vettel endured a slow stop in Bahrain, suggesting afterwards that Ferrari’s pit stop equipment needed upgrading, having also encountered a tardy wheel change at Imola last month. Ferrari has explained that it considers any pit stop longer than 3.5 seconds “a serious failure” and that 22 per cent of its stops have exceeded that figure this year. “It’s true that the number of stops over 3.5 seconds is too high by the Scuderia’s past standards, but the vast majority of times that there has been a...
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