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Analysis: How Williams have become Formula 1's pitstop kings

Williams may still have a fight on its hands to topple rivals on-track, but there is one area where the team is the class act in Formula 1 right now: pitstops. For after what technical chief Pat Symonds called an 'embarrassing' failure in the tyre change department in recent years, the Williams crew has been the fastest in the pitlane at each race so far this season. Its 2.35 seconds stop in Australia, and 2.32 seconds in Bahrain was improved to 2.10 seconds in China to deliver it a hat-trick of trophies for the DHL Fastest Pitstop Award. While one brilliantly fast stop could be put down to luck, the fact that it has been consistently at the top shows that there has been a significant...
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