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Force India: Our pit-stops must improve
Force India Team Manager Andy Stevenson has clearly stated that his team’s mechanics must improve the speed of their pit-stops, having reviewed the services for Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi in Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix.
With Sutil finishing fifth to equal his best result of the season so far, Liuzzi was classified tenth and therefore also scored after being the chief beneficiary of Jaime Alguersuari’s 20-second time penalty for cutting the Bus Stop Chicane.
“It’s been a tough weekend,” Stevenson acknowledged in Force India’s official post-race podcast.
“We’ve had some pretty late nights to get the cars ready in time but it was a good job all round; in the race I think the engineers did a fantastic job to keep on top of it all.
“I have to say, it was a little bit nerve-wracking because it’s very easy to throw it away here, just one small mistake in your decisions and it’s very difficult to come back from it.”
However, Andy stresses that the rapidity of pit-stops must be worked on.
“A the first round of pit-stops we were probably a little sluggish, so we shall be putting the guys through their paces next week back at the factory because we seem to be dropping time off to some of our competitors there and that’s just not good,” he said.
“We work very hard to make the car quick on the track and to just drop a couple of seconds in the pit-stop in not really acceptable.
“The second round - when I suppose it really did matter that we had to get people out because there were a lot of other cars in the pit lane - went very well but we need to identify why we can’t do it like that every time.”
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