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Pit stop incidents prompt call for review

There is something to be said about reaching a limit or hitting a wall of what is achievable in reducing the time it takes to pit a Formula 1 car, change all four wheels and send it on its way. Today, the time it takes can hover in the sub two second range for teams that have drilled relentlessly to perfect their pit stops. Time, and races for that matter, can be won or lost in the pits and that’s nothing unique to F1. It happens across all forms of motorsport at varying degrees including endurance racing. What is unique to F1 is the amount of time and people it takes to make the pit stop as fast as it can be and to gain, hold or beat a position on track. To those ends, technology has...
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