The overall weight has gone up this year from 752kg to 795kg due to the switch to 18-inch wheels and improvements in safety measures, with a further 3kg addition announced during the Bahrain test due to standard parts proving heavier than anticipated.
In addition, the 18-inch wheels are bulkier and have covers, making them harder to handle.
Red Bull has traditionally performed some of the fastest stops in the pitlane, the team logging the top eight stops of the 2021 season including a best of 1.88s.
The Milton Keynes outfit has won F1’s DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award four years in a row, but Horner anticipates it is unlikely to emulate such rapid stops this year.
“The pitstops have been slowed a little bit,” Horner told F1 TV.
“The wheels are heavier, obviously, we’ve got the wheel disc in them now.
“So I doubt we’re going to get sub two seconds stops, but hopefully we can get into the low twos, that would be that’d be really solid.
“Thankfully our rear jack man, Olaf…
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