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FIA defers clampdown on ultra-fast pitstops to Spa

The FIA has postponed to the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa after the summer break the clampdown on ultra-fast pitstops that it had planned to enforce from Hungary. The govern body's decision to push back its new pitstop rules was motivated by the introduction of a new technical directive in which several of the minimum time requirements associated with a several stages of a pitstop have been scrapped. Previously, for instance, a minimum figure of 0.15s from a wheel nut being tightened to the jack man being told to drop the car had been set in a bid to avoid the automatization of a process. However after a consultation with the teams, including with Red Bull whose lightning-fast stops generated...
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