News Details

Pit stop time vs. Pit lane times

Since the start of the 2016 Formula One World Championship DHL have been awarding teams for the fastest pit stop to take place during each F1 race. Until the British Grand Prix this accolade had been reserved for the Williams F1 Team but does fastest pit stop time tell the full story? A 1.9 second pit stop (an accolade recently achieved by the Williams F1 team) may look fantastic on paper, but what speed was the driver doing when he entered the pit box? How much time was lost in ensuring he hit his marks perfectly? Changing tyres, adjusting front wings, cleaning visors and removing debris from sidepod’s, whilst exceptionally complicated and highly choreographed is only part of the pit...
Full Story »
8y ago from JWGrandPrix.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

How F1 pit stop expertise can help newborn babies

How F1 pit stop expertise can help newborn babies First, stop on a dime....
8y ago from ThisIsF1.com

F1 2016 Fastest Lap and Fastest Pit Stop So Far

Prev1 of 10Next Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse DHL Fastest Lap...
8y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Box, box, box – F1 explained what makes the perfect...

MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team Sporting Director Ron Meadows...
8y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Alonso fastest on opening day of Silverstone test

Fernando Alonso topped the first day of testing at Silverstone, going...
8y ago from F1Technical.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

VR46 Racing Team presents 2025 MotoGP livery

The VR46 Racing Team unveiled its livery for the 2025 MotoGP season at...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

IndyCar takes over promotion of Nashville event

IndyCar’s Music City Grand Prix will be promoted internally by IndyCar...

Juncos Hollinger shows off new-look livery for 2025...

Juncos Hollinger Racing unveiled a new look for the 2025 NTT IndyCar...

Scott McLaughlin on track to repeat Supercars success...

After spending the last four years moving up the ranks in the NTT IndyCar...

Christian Lundgaard hails ‘pure racing’ aspect of...

Christian Lundgaard is beginning his fourth full season driving in the...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Sebastian Ogier extends Monte lead; Grégoire Munster...

With an overnight lead of 12.6 seconds in his back pocket, Sebastian...
58m ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

David Moyes joins exclusive 700-game club: Which...

Sports Mole takes a look at the top 20 managers who have taken charge of...
3h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

New angle shows why Arsenal defender Miles...

Arsenal defender Miles Lewis-Skelly was controversially sent off by...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Watch Live: 2025 Daytona 24 Hours

Watch each part of the 2025 Daytona 24 Hours,... Read More »
1h ago from RacingNews365.com

Verstappen ‘DONE’ following Red Bull nightmare

Max Verstappen has admitted to being 'done' with... Read More »
18m ago from GPFans.com

Hamilton’s testing scheduled with Ferrari finalized

The details of Lewis Hamilton’s testing... Read More »
2h ago from F1i.com

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.