McLaren’s pit problems strike again – three of their last four stops were slow

For all the faith Lando Norris undoubtedly has in his team, he must have felt a little apprehensive when he arrived in the pits to change tyres on lap 27 of the Singapore Grand Prix.

His last two tyres changes have not gone well. At Monza a slow pit stop dropped him behind his team mate, but the team reversed that by telling Oscar Piastri to let him through.

However they couldn’t do anything about his second slow tyre change in as many races in Azerbaijan, which left him trapped behind rival cars.

Piastri didn’t make it as far as the pits in Baku, so when Norris pitted today he knew McLaren’s last two pit stops had cost him. But this time there were no such problems. In fact, he spent the least time in the pit lane of any driver – just as Piastri did after his smooth pit stop in Monza.

This time it was Piastri’s turn to suffer a delay. As was the case for Norris in Singapore, he ranked down in 20th place for time spent in the pits.

In terms of time loss, Piastri’s slow pit stop was costlier than Norris’s last one by around a second. However, due to the circumstances of the races, Piastri lost no positions due to his delay.

That will be little consolation to McLaren, however, and their pit stop problems will surely be their top priority once the championship celebrations are over. Three of the last four pit stops they have performed have cost their drivers multiple seconds and, on one occasion, points.

At least Piastri’s pit stop went better than Aston Martin’s dreadful tyre change for Fernando Alonso, which cost him seven seconds. That appeared to wreck his hopes of scoring points, but he recovered impressively, and even got close enough to Lewis Hamilton to benefit from the Ferrari driver’s post-race penalty.

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