[F1.com] The time between Pérez first DNF and his return to the race is officially counted as a 41-minute pit stop

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So Red Bull now has the fastest and the slowest pit stop of the season (or ever).
- Not ever. Bottas still holds that honor (2021 Monaco GP. One of the wheel nuts got stripped. Merc had to ship the car back to Brackley to get the wheel off)
  
  That's a retirement, he didn't rejoin. Perez did, so it counts as a pit stop.
- Gotta be ever. Such unique circumstances
To say Perez is having a bad year is probably an understatement
- he is 2nd, but you're right.
  
  He needs to be 2nd even harder.
  
  Which is pretty much meaningless. Believe me, Red Bull will be counting the times he's screwed up at the end of the year,
  
  For now, Hamilton could catch him at this rate
- He had a good year.. for about three months
I wondered during the race: why were they allowed to put the car back on track after the 'retirement'?

Is there really no rule to stop that? Like could you conceivably crash, be brought back to the garage, repaired, get back in and rejoin the race? I guess there's little reason to (excepted in a contrived situation like this), but I'd always assumed that was not permitted.
- As long as the driver and the car can get back to the pits on their own, I think yes. When crashing out you'd likely need external help to get back to the pit lane, so I'm pretty sure you'd be out for good then.
  
  Yeah I'd always assumed 'external help' would be the dealbreaker, but I checked the onboard and you can see they jack the car up on to the 'skateboard' to move it back in to the garage (00:37 on F1TV feed). Perhaps it's external powered help, I guess that would get around cars being pushed back by marshals too.
- Long ago, they used to have spare cars for just such an occasion! My question is: if a safety car happened during his one lap, would we be required to watch checo unlap himself for 26 laps before going green?
  
  RB said that part of the reason they held him back and had a discussion with the FIA about it, was to avoid that happening and impacting Max.
- As long as you give the driver their gloves and steering wheel it's fine.
  
  Come on! Move!
- Because the FIA just make it up as they go.
- Well it used to be the case on purpose, given that they had third cars for the scenario of a crash. And then everyone simply forgot about how it was and wasnt covered by the rules, I guess.
Still doesn't beat Bottas' "pit stop" in 2021. Took like 5 days for them to get the wheel off. Had to bring the car back to the factory to take off the wheel nut!

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