Haas shuffles crew after pitstop blunders
Manama : Haas has reshuffled its pit crew and introduced an extra fail-safe system to try to prevent a repeat of its Australian Grand Prix pitstop blunders.
Botched pitstops for both Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean cost Haas a likely double top-six finish in the first race of the new F1 season, and team boss Gunther Steiner blamed a lack of practice for the errors.
Ahead of the second race of the season in Bahrain, Haas has altered its procedures to try to ensure there is no repeat of the mistakes.
Steiner said: “We swapped a few positions [between pit crew], and the main reason is not because they did the mistake, but getting their confidence back.
“If you keep on doing the same and the guys are not confident, the risk that you have a mistake again is high, so we swapped
positions.
“You pair different people and give them different jobs, because you need so many people anyway, and that is what we did for this race, and that is what we are doing since yesterday practicing.”
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