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Horner angry at technical directive to slow F1 pit stops

The FIA has delivered a complex new technical directive to the teams that is likely to slow pit stop times as it removes potential areas of automation. Pit stop times have dropped to around the two-second mark, with Red Bull holding the world record and regularly registering stops under two seconds. However, the FIA has now issued a technical directive that is centered on areas of the process that might have become automated, with the governing body concerned it could lead to dangerous errors. To that end, human reaction time tolerances are being built into pit stops in a similar way to the gap between the lights going out and a car moving to judge a jump start, and Christian Horner...
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