{"id":3591,"date":"2010-03-22T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2010-03-22T06:52:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:52:08","slug":"mercedes-eyes-2-5-second-pitstops-in-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-eyes-2-5-second-pitstops-in-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes eyes 2.5 second pitstops in future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mercedes hopes to race ahead in the pitstop department starting with this weekend&#8217;s Australian grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Ross Brawn has admitted that the W01 is not currently on the pace of the frontrunners, but that steps over the &#8220;next few races&#8221; should bring it closer to the lead.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But the German weekly Der Spiegel claims that the Brackley based team could immediately lead the pack in terms of the speed of its tyre-only pitstops in Melbourne and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>A newly-shaped front jack has been designed so that mechanics can get to work more quickly on removing the old wheels and fitting new ones.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Bahrain season opener, it emerged from Red Bull that the actual wheel-changing time was as short as 1.8 seconds, even though the total stationary time of a good pitstop was closer to 3.5 to 4 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>A Mercedes spokesman confirmed that a sub-3.5 second pitstop was until now a &#8220;great result&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But in the near future, &#8220;2.5 seconds would be a realistic goal&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes hopes to race ahead in the pitstop department starting with this weekend&#8217;s Australian grand prix. \u00a0 Team boss Ross Brawn has admitted that the W01 is not currently on the pace of the frontrunners, but that steps over the &#8220;next few races&#8221; should bring it closer to the lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,34,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}