One crumb of comfort Valtteri Bottas can identify as he contemplates an early season blighted by pitstop issues – none of them will be as bad as his worst stop ever, which remains a record in Formula 1. At the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix, when Valtteri was driving for Mercedes, the pit crew was unable to remove his right-front wheel… so it remained in place for another 43 hours, finally parted from the chassis in a surgical procedure back at the factory.
To consistently achieve fast stops, where the car is stationary for around
