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Red Bull wants FIA to scrap pitstop clampdown

Jul.3 Red Bull is working hard behind the scenes to overturn the FIA's incoming pitstop speed clampdown. It recently emerged that complaints had been lodged about the super-human speed of Red Bull's pitstop process, prompting the FIA to react. 'We worked for years to get this lead,' a still-furious Dr Helmut Marko told motorsport-magazin.com at the Red Bull Ring on Friday. 'We also think it is a very large part of the show.' Marko thinks Mercedes was the impetus behind the FIA's complex new technical directive, which mandates certain phases of the pitstop process that cannot be completed beyond normal human reaction times. 'This time it was another Mercedes team pushing this,' he...
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