You cannot watch the replay of the way Mercedes stacked their cars for a pitstop during the Chinese Grand Prix and not be awestruck by the poetry in motion coupled to ruthless efficiency of a crew, at the top of their game, as they dispatched both cars in ten seconds flat! From the moment Lewis Hamilton hit the marks for his pitstop to the split second Valtteri Bottas screeched out of the pit-box – with eight tyres removed and changed – was about the same time it takes Usain Bolt to run 100 metres! Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director shone light on how the team went about the stunning feat in the heat of battle in Shanghai, 'I can give you a bit of the background, so...
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