Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says “back-up measures” have been put in place to prevent a repeat of a radio issue that led to a pit stop mix-up at the Sakhir Grand Prix.
Mercedes had one of its rare blunders at the Sakhir Grand Prix. During a “safety pit stop” the team experienced a radio issue that led to a confusion among the team’s pit crew and ultimately left George Russell with two of Valtteri Bottas’ tyres and the Finn with his old tyres fitted back on.
The issue cost Mercedes the race, but Toto Wolff says it has now been fixed.
“It’s always painful when you learn on the job, and this is going to make us better like the many times that we fell on our nose,” Wolff told Sky Sports F1 on Friday.
“We had just an intercom loophole, the channels were overlapping themselves, and the guys on George’s side didn’t hear that he was coming in.
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“We fixed that now. We even put some additional back-up measures in place. It’s not going to happen again.”
At the end of the yesterday’s free practice Lewis Hamilton had an issue with his car that prevented him from pulling out of his pit box. Wolff explains what the problem was.
“We had a clutch issue, and then the car wouldn’t restart. He reset it and was able to restart. It’s something we’ve been looking for for a while.
“Many other manufacturers can do that,” concluded the Austrian.