“I thought he was brought in to improve the team including pit stops.”

Michael said before the Valencia race he was confident McLaren had found a
solution to the problems.

“Pit stops are definitely better,” he said. “What we’ve done is work a lot on
equipment, and also the people. We brought a lot of things like retained
wheel nuts, quick release jacks, a traffic light system, so really we’ve
been on an upward curve on equipment to get it right. We’ve changed a lot of
people around as well.

“We’ve been fixed now for the last three races. We think we can average here
sub 3sec, which is better than any other team in the pit lane.”