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How Bottas' Monaco F1 pitstop ended up being 43 hours long

F1 teams regularly churn out stops in around two seconds, so it was quite a shock to find that Mercedes had to wait until the car was back in the factory on Tuesday morning to get the wheel off. That was more than 43 hours after the pitstop began.
So, what went wrong for Mercedes and what's so special about the equipment that teams are using that enable them to break the two-second ...Keep reading

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