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Originally Posted by Tanick
I must admit I don't follow F1 and wasn't aware of this. My mate looks after the wheels and tyres for Vettel (and Coulthard before him) and I understood that he did the changes on his car too. I'll ask when I see him next and find out exactly how it works.
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I think he will do the same job during pitstops for both drivers, there are not enough mechanics at each race for two crews. Teams will have a few reserve mechanics in case of injuries to cover the usual crew.
If he does the wheels/tyres I'm sure it will be his job to make sure the right tyres are up to temperature and given out for the correct corner of each car when the race engineer requests a pit stop. I'm guessing his job in the pit stop would be fitting or removing the wheel on the rear corner on the garage side
Doing a pitstop is a suprisingly calm experience when you are in the middle of it, your mentally sampling rate shoots up to cope with increased speed of what you are doing. I wouldn't want to do it for a living though as there is huge pressure not to make a mistake.