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FIA’s new pitlane impeding stance won’t work, warns Magnussen
Ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix, F1 race director Niels Wittich has prohibited drivers from stopping in the fast lane of the pits during qualifying, as drivers were using this tactic to build-up gaps ahead of them. Instead, drivers must drive slowly on their way out of the pits and leave space for rivals to pass them on the right before the pitlane exit line ends. However, Haas driver Kevin Magnussen is skeptical about this new approach, believing that it will lead to traffic jams at the pit exit line rather than in the pits. Magnussen is concerned that the new restrictions will create a bottleneck right before the safety car line 2, where drivers need a minimum 5-second buffer for a qualifying lap. He believes that the congestion will now occur before safety car line 2, rather than in the pitlane. Although there have been improvements with the new maximum lap time for outlaps in qualifying, there have also been unintended consequences.
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