Ferrari being one of the best F1 team in the world, when they should be winning, they lost and the blunders came from technology.
They, the advance and fore-runner in technology team, is the only team that do not use the lollipop sign in F1 race. This has cost them trophies, pit crew bruises, fuel pipes and headline in F1.
The lollipop man who is standing in front of the car, can see all the actions and completion of the tasks assigned to the pit crew. Once all clear and the traffic is clear, he will then change the sign to Gear 1 and move up to let the car drive out of the pit. All these? none with Ferraris. They use the Red, Amber, Green light instead. Yes, it will reduce the pit stop time but it didnt work since the last race - Valencia. 3 errors including this, encoutered by team Ferrari. Read here.
The pic above showing the pit crews who only ran like 3 minutes later down the pit lane to remove the still attached fuel pipes from Massa's car. Massa was waiting for pit crews to come forward to retract the fuel pipes for him to continue racing. It took the crews minutes that is crucial to Massa's racing time to run to him. You can see on the TV that the crew is jogging towards him and not running. Amazing! I think next time when Ferrari selects their pit crew, they'll have to go for a 100m time trial test. haha.
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