McLaren insist that a slow pit-stop did not cost Lando Norris positions in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. To make matters worse, Norris suffered a slow pit-stop for the second consecutive weekend. Despite experiencing a slow 4.1-second stop, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella rejected suggestions Norris missed the opportunity to claw back further ground on Piastri. “There's still some interactions between the operator and the hardware that should be improved from an hardware point of view. “We know that from a hardware point of view, we are not optimising.