Pitstop Comparisons: F1 vs. Formula E vs. IndyCar vs. NASCAR vs. Endurance Racing
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2018
- Have you ever wondered how pitstops compare across motorsports? We take a look into the differences between F1, IndyCar, NASCAR, Formula E and Endurance Racing.
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Rally driver be like : i lose one tire , but 3 tires are still enough🙏
**Left rear's on the rim**
Citreon DS be like:
"first time ?"
Rallycross: The car is burning but I'll just keep driving and hope I win before the car burns to the ground..
@@RenaxTM91 Le mans driver: wait, that's illegal.
@@Katt1n Everybody gangsta till the codriver gets the wind knocked out of him.
F1 pitcrew: *Eating their ice cream after a successful stop*
F1 pit chief: 2nd driver has entered the pit lane!!
Different crews for different cars.
@@reubenforever1 Not when they are on the same team
@@nvrslps Sorry I stand corrected.
Kimi: Eating his ice cream after the red flag
David Price ha nice
1:17 serious bravery: being the jackman for lance stroll xd
Lol
More brave , is the guy who removes Seb’s front left tyre .
HECK , now they are in the same team !
Aston Martin pit crew really needs a hug
*NASCAR: Less than 16 seconds to change 4 tires*
*Guido: P I T S T O P!*
Haha
RIP Lightning McQueen
“No tires! Just gas!”
@@chunderpapa "YOU NEED TIRES YOU FOOL"
Exactly why can’t we just get guido
😂😂
Most important pit crew member? The ice cream man
Vinay Lalwani Ice cream man A.K.A Cole trickle's crew chief
Hahahha
Especially during Kimi’s stops
AMEN
leave me alone
Ice Cream man is only used for Kimi.
daniel mcginn kimi IS the ice cream man
true
I think they need a hot drinks guy after servicing Kimi.
Nah Kimi needs the gloves-and-steering-wheel man
Haha very funny
thats all cool,
but do you know who Guido is?
"Pit-stop" - Guido
Lollll mcqueen
Boxe Stope
@@giorgospetro1826 no shit sherlock
K guido changes tyres in about 5 secs while normal nascars pit crew change in about 10 secs and btw im a f1 fan not a nascar fan
Small Italian forklift: "PITSTOP"
Mustache: "CLANG"
You mean Ferrari?
Sindhu Sojan no
"I DON'T believe it!"
"that was the fastest pit stop I've ever seen!"
GUIDOOO
@@bhaswaraarizon5012 but he's still gotta beat that pacecar out there
Formula E best method.
wHy chAnGe TIrEs wHEn YuO CAn CHAnGe cAr iNstEad
Someone pleass explain why this got so many likes
Let me make it clear it's a joke
Year but what about the price of the car
@@corbormarsbar8655 well fuck that
yup, much better now with gen2 car where they actually need to manage power to get over the entire race
@@corbormarsbar8655 wOooOOooSh
@@corbormarsbar8655 i dont think they throw away the car after
F1, because it's so smooth even tho there are 21 people around the car
Edit: wth 2 years an 5k likes thanks!
You spell like a 5 year old
21? 3 per wheel plus a front and rear jack man. YOU do the math!
Peopol
Ummm...the ice-cream man isn't a real thing
@@koitorob plus te stabeliser and reserve rear jack and wing replacement team
After having grown up watching NASCAR pitstops, then seeing the laser precision going on in F1 stops, my first time watching an endurance pitstop I was like "... they're taking forever!"
It’s definitely a matter of the regulations. Give NASCAR the same number of crew over the wall as F1 teams are allowed and you’ll see all 4 tyres and fuel in 4 seconds.
Yor right this absolutely boring compared to nascar
i love the sound of the bolts getting taken off in nascar
Nicky Plays it sounds so satisfying
Mmmmm yes gimmie that stuff
Nicky Plays agreed
*Next Gen Car enters the chat*
Lug Nuts there called lug nuts
Formula E's finally figured out a way to avoid the silly have-to-switch-cars thing? Great!
I remember watching one of the first FE races where commentators were talking about how a guy pulling into the pits was going to need to retire because of damage, only for the "oh, wait, never mind, he's getting into a different car" realization to hit them a few seconds later. That was mildly amusing.
ColeYote I get the feeling FE was kind of thrown together. Do you get the sense the FIA didn’t really expect commercial EVs to be popularised this soon? They’re always talking about mechanical ‘relevance’ and EVs became relevant far before they expected.
thanks i hate it It seems more they underestimated it and probably didn't think it would go anywhere
Indeed, but on the other hand, it was weird but also funny in the first season, how both title contenders weren't be able to score points in the title deciding rsce, so it came down to who posted the fastest lap. It was weird at first but makes a lot of sense. Come to think of it, it doesn't really matter how pitstops work after all. It's all part of racing strategy. No matter how you do it. That being said; I want refueling back in F1!
Tom Mahne why so?
The commentators in your country might not be very competent then, cuz we knew before the first FE Race that car swap would happen
Pit stops are actually quite scary if you think about it. Nice animations Ali.
Those line animations were beautiful to watch morph into each series of car!
That’s true. People have been killed or badly injured in the pit crews because of the chaos.
Yea, imagine having a car coming directly at you at 60mph/100kmh and you have to trust that it's going to stop right in front of you. . .pit lanes may seem slow because of their speed limits but that's still highway speed!
That's why they have speed limits Mr. Griffin
My brother was a NASCAR pit crew man for 3 years. Specifically, the rear tire changer (operating the pneumatic gun). He always said he was jealous of F1 mechanics because they only had to hit one bolt on each tire meanwhile In NASCAR he had to hit about 6 bolts on each tire. Also, NASCAR teams only hire ex-college or professional athletes and held a combine like event to find their pit crew. About 260 tried out and they only took 3.
Fun fact about this Nascar bit. At the time this video was uploaded in 2018 Nascar mandated only 5 men over the wall and even stricter rules on what everyone can and can't do
When it takes only 2 seconds for an F1 team to change the tires, you know they mean busines...
Pitstop
@@sunrisespartan1765 cars reference?
@@yogurt5280 of course
When u have an ice cream man waiting to give u some good shit of course you're gonna take 2 secs to do a pitstop
@@jeffdid9117 lmaoo exactly
3:44 that was kinda hot.
Supercar Spotters you are at 69 likes. Nice
It was sexy
*C A R P O R N O G R A P H Y*
Supercar Spotters I imagined the car moaning
God why oh why!!!
**revs engine with pleasure **
Even though F1 pit stops can take under 2 seconds to complete, there’s 20 people surrounding the car to make it happen whereas nascar, one man per wheel unbolts each of the 5 lugs in a matter of seconds and then bolts the new one on. I still think nascar pit stops are incredibly impressive at the sheer speed of doing 5 lugs. But that doesn’t mean F1’s 2 second pit stops AREN’T impressive
Yeah it looks impossible I don't know how they do it
They should have some kind of mechanic where they loosen all 5 bolts at the same time. Similar objects are used in truck factories where they bolt on a truck tire.
@@ismannen567 Well this Sunday is the last NASCAR race with 5 lugnuts. Next year in February with the Next Gen car they move to center lock wheels.
@@mohammeded-dahbi7603 they have a school called nascar technical institute, inside of it they have a pit crew school where they practice all day, and get certified by a school. Usually they’re prime candidates for nascar times.
My girlfriend went to the school for CNC machining, I did not go myself but I’m very familiar with the school as it’s 15 minutes from my house
but the nascar 2022 season is geting 1 bolt now
Everybody gangsta till guido comes in with luigi
I actually counted it’s a four second pit stop so f1 is faster but guido is on his own so he’s still the most impressive XD
@@forpiepress1964 true
Pitstop with 4 Guidos as tire changers = 0.4s
@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 oh $h*t
😂
I like how the replacement tires are allowed to just appear out of thin air in Indycar.
The fuel can guy in nascar cannot actually do anything except refuelling. They give out penalties if they violate it
Meet Mistry I think he meant if they are not refueling, the fuel guy will do the tires, idk. That is my guess
and it’s 5 guys
That's a brand new rule for this year, a few years ago they were able to make the rear end wedge adjustments in the rear window.
Id just be happy if Nascar gets rid of the mandated universal pit gun
Man I miss Wind Tunnel on SPEED, a place where people who love different forms can get together & discuss different racing.
Yes F1 is 2 seconds for a pitstop, then we saw More than 1 minute on German gp
What a legendary moment in Hamilton's career.
Nose change and he was not supposed to come in. They did not have anything ready.
@@dmitriylaktionov4957 Of course he had to come in. He lost his front wing on the last turn.
@@roreuqnoc He meant to say that Hamilton was supposed to continue. The sudden front wing dmg near the pitstop that made him decide to go in.
The team need some time to prepare their spare parts. Also, the fact that it was a front wing replacement made it far worse.
@@dmitriylaktionov4957 The team had messed up there. as much as people can say Hamilton is a crybaby the team fucked him up
The Gen 2 FE car is absolutely beautiful
Agreed.
It kinda looks like the indycar ir18. The rear, at least.
@@rayhankazianga6817 not really, it's not as tall and is a bit wider
But I can't take my car to get a tire change without waiting 45 minutes 😂😂😂
Sorry guys, they changed the rule for NASCAR in the winter, only 5 guys over the wall now
And the Gas man isn't allowed to do anything but refuel
And also add that the pneumatic guns are now regulated by NASCAR
Or get a penalty.
I wouldn't worry as it seems only Chase is able to get penalties of any kind this year lol
Fedora Bogdanova fuck off
F1 is efficient, but NASCAR will always be my favorite. The amazing sounds of the drills, the high speed skill of the crew since they have 5 bolts per wheel, they way it is all coordinated, and the stress to try and shave even just 1 second off of the time taken is just much more appealing to me. It is like a race within the race XD
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The high pitch sound is so satisfying
Lol all that long paragraph is unnecessary.
U could just say ;
Americans -> NASCAR
Rest of the world -> F1
Cuz that’s just how an F1 fan feels about F1 pit stop .The sound , the time , the race within a race , yeah …. Very similar
@@mrdude9671 that'd where you're wrong bud. I'm an Australian and I love NASCAR pit stops.
@@comengsh
A Minority
Nascar fans in Australia are rare
During '90 in F1 there were only 2 mechanics for pit stops. They were amazing moments.
They also used to refuel the car
I never knew that there was a "ICE-CREAM MAN" on the pit stop !
Seriously, got to study more
Kimi exclusive tho
bwoah
Well, there frequently is a lollipop guy, but not over the wall . . .
Second car rolls in
The team: oh s**t
I've always been a huge fan of pitstops after I saw the Pitstop scene from the movie "Cars". I personally like NASCAR pitstops best because its more exiting and hectic than in the other sports. I do also love F1 pitstops, watching that is like eye-candy...
F1 is like watching an entire Christmas party happen in 2 seconds. Nascar is like synchronized chaos.
ZivoxGaming I miss refueling though in F1. Yeah it’s dangerous so I understand why they took it out but exciting for fans.
ZivoxGaming I love pitstops as well they can be hectic but in F1 I love the amount of poeple that come out 😃😃
Savageboy 678 I think its dumb, they overdo everything in f1, least amount of skill of any Motorsport, hard to mess up when u have 18 others to help
I've always thought NASCAR pitstops could be improved a lot. Not sure how. Maybe use pneumatic jacks in the bottom of the car so all 4 tires could be changed at once and have the gas man use a hose from a tank, both like Indy. Those gas cans seem so archaic. On the other hand, the tire guys are incredibly fast with the lug nuts. They must practice constantly. It must take a long time to learn and condition yourself (including muscle memory) to remove and re-apply the lug nuts.
It takes me ten minutes to line up the tire with the studs, I couldn't imagine having to pull a tire off and instantly shoving a new on first try lol. I know there's little tricks and marks they use but still pretty impressive.
Even worse is NASCAR pit crew members can be fired for fucking it up just once
You have to do it right every time
The hub on a nascar helps a little. If you ever look closely at stock car hub, you will see a cone shape in the middle. That helps guide the rim into position so that all you have to worry about is making sure the studs are lined up with the holes.
You have one of the best CZcams channels of any kind. Videos well done, good marketing stunts, etc... Well done!
My favorite one was definitely FE, as they used to just ditch the car entirely and move on to the next.
@Leopold Which let the drivers go a little more crazy. This also incidentally reduced the number of fatalities in FE. With the new generation, they are gone though... (but the crashes still stayed).
@Leopold quite late answer to your question but in Formula E they use all weather tires.
@Leopold
Manufacturers will gettired of expensive and avoidable maintenance.
NHRA. Complete clutch and engine rebuild in 30 minutes. No ones even close.
If they did a better job the engine would last more than a quarter of a mile...
@@koitorob Top Fuel engines go under much more pressure. Those engines generate as moche as 10K HP and 10,000 Newton per Meter squared. Basically its amazing how does engines survive.
@@davidvalencia129 I think it was a joke lol
I don’t think top fuel are allowed to do quarter mile anymore, they’re limited to 1000 feet I believe. They’re so fast that, the extra 320 feet makes them too dangerous.
You go in straight line boom you need to repair everything
The breakers have been welded due to temperature just everything
NASCAR is my favorite because that sounds that come from unscrewing the 5 lug nuts is nostalgic
Its gonna be sad to see them go
@@lieutenantmcbubbles7403 wdym?
@@scusemesir9988 with the next gen car in 2022 they are moving to one lug nut
@@lieutenantmcbubbles7403 *sad 2,3,4,5 lug nut noises*
The Gen 7 car will have one lug nut
04:06, Gran Turismo 5 and 6 memories, all 4 tires changed, but still have to wait for refuelling
You forgot about top fuel dragsters. Literally rebuild the entire engine between passes.
That isn't a pit stop.
The description of a pit stop is a stop in a race where you do maintenance or whatever
@@thatcanadian3240 which is not what happens at a drag race, as it's not in the race, but between races.
@@xander1052 exactly
You forgot in NASCAR that they also have to clean the grill for aero purpose and the windshield. Also if required (said by the driver) adjust car setup right away and more.
Everything in the shortest Time possible
and sometime they give a refresh drink to the driver
They also add tape to the grille to control engine temperature
He also forgot that the fuel man cant do anything else than fuel
Is the crew doing the tearoff included as someone serving the car? Not quite sure about the rules
@@JhyunCho yes it is
Will miss you Matt. Can’t imagine a video without your voice… all the very best for all your future endeavors
Thank you for this unbiased look at these different methods. I never knew how strange the Formula E and Endurance pit stops were before. Also, thank you for breaking down exactly why the NASCAR pit stops are so much of a struggle and take so much longer than F1. So many F1 fans don't realize the limitations NASCAR crews have to deal with, and the five lug nut thing is honestly outdated and should be changed at this point. There've been way too many issues that have come out of a single lug nut not being tightened all the way.
Right. And F1 has never had any issues with their one-and-only-one lug not being torqued. 4 out of 5 is much better than 0 out of 1. (In F1, if they get that -- or anything, really -- wrong, their race is over.) I'd still rather watch F1. NASCAR is rather boring to watch. (most people are there to watch the crashes, not the driving.)
well your prayers have been answered. Next Gen NASCAR is officially converting to 1 lug nut!
Former MWR employee sued for wrongful termination and it showed he was gettiing $97k just for pit crew duties + $50k for job at the race shop. Each tire changer had custom pit gun internals & weight distribution to their preference. Teams were spending so much money on pit gun development they mandated a standard pit gun for 2018.
outlawRACE1 By MWR do you mean Michael Waltrip Racing?
Yup. R.I.P to MWR
Yeah Nascar takes it pit crews to a whole other level hiring athletes that were not quiet good enough to be pro NFL players for their pit crews. That's why they make so much cause they have to be so highly trained and in shape now.
and the guns are giant piles of shit.
RIP cheaters..lol
Did Mikey have MWR when he got caught with sterno in his intake?
Nascar now only allows 5 crew members over the wall. 1 Tire carrier, 2 tire changers, a jackman, and a fueler. Pit stop times are now around 15 seconds for 4 tires.
15 second pit stop only if nascar's new mandated pit dosen't break.
Teams were struggling at the beginning of the year. But they have worked out the kinks of the new system. And now they can do extremely quick stops.
Jonathan Kraus what an inconvenience
I like how few pit crew members NASCAR has, but I dislike the requirement that they all have specific jobs. Like 5 men over the wall, but they can work on whatever. It would be funny if a car that is already laps behind have 4 guys clean the windshield and 1 guy do every thing else!
scottthewaterwarrior it’s mainly to stop accidents. If you know what your job is, you can practice that thing in specific.
Also a lot less confusion.
I swear this video gets recommended to me like every 2 months
The noise the NASCAR’s tire change makes is so iconic and satisfying
The NASCAR guys really have to work it. They do an incredible job.
BrEMHel excuse me?
BrEMHel you sound like some elitist prick. What is wrong with poor/working class people racing stock cars?
BrEMHel the irony is profound. Aren’t Formula One cats tiny plastic machines that shatter on impact? Up until very recently, NASCARs were built from titanium and steel. They can take a beating unlike a Formula One car.
BrEMHel I’m working class too. Why I appreciated NASCAR for a long time since most of its famous drivers came from poor and working class families.
@BrEMHel what is wrong with you lmao. You sound like a 14 year old.
Fun fact: Most of the pit crews in NASCAR are made up of former MMA fighters and NFL players.
Furious Sherman source?
Noob Hooligan Sources are every where. They aren’t all made up of that but most teams have a few
A lot of the NASCAR over the wall members are recruited from college athletics, typically football players who didn't get a chance in the NFL. Some of them never considered it an option until a recruiter from Hendrick or Gibbs, etc got a hold of them.
@@drunkenwildmage true
👏👏 meme review
Enjoying your f1 vids my good man
This is such a cool video. Helped me get my fundamentals right
nice topic of the video, really enjoyed :)) good work boys!
I think it is worth noting that those NASCAR stop rules are based off of 2017 rules. For 2018 the gasman is only allowed gas the car (to prevent fires and people leaving with the can still attached). They also moved to 5 men over the wall instead of 6. A standard strategy for those 5 men has yet to be developed. The change has increased the average pitstop time by about 2.5 seconds.
I remember seeing a 2-second pit stop in a DTM race on tv as a kid. It will always be my favourite.
F1 sounds less complicated 😂
Besides that.. They have a ice-cream man😂😂
Just found your channel, new sub, nice friendly, informative video's with humour. Thank's.
Damn, all that work is so worth it for that icecream
I watched the Indy race pit stop when they raced through downtown San Jose! It was amazing!
F1: gimme new tires
FE: gIvE mE A nEw CaR!!
The WEC and IMSA mechanics are absolut legends
They do pitstops in every hour during a 24h Race and some of them change tires one handed
F1 pitstops might be a lot faster but in my opinion the work F1 mechanics do is nothing compared to the Job of WEC or IMSA pit Crews
Yes but to be fair, all the (usually) have to do IS change four wheels. Not brakes, not clutch...
@@koitorob when have you ever seen a clutch replacement in a pit stop? sure during 24hr race it may be replaced but in the garage..not during a routine tire/fuel stop
isnt nascar 5 over the wall now? also you missed the person looking down the pitlane looking for release and the other 2 people that can over ride the traffic lights and watch the pit stop from the front and rear in case anything goes wrong (in f1)
Exactly. The new regs only allow 5 man over the wall.
Yup 5 over now. Depending on driver preference the Spotter or crew chief counts down 5,4,3,2,1 and release the car 1 lane clear, 2 lane clear etc.
+2 jacks just in case the car can’t be lifted (back/front)
These are 2017 rules they are using. They also changed it so that the gasman can only gas the car now.
Mikelife TV yeah forgot about that one too
Nice video. I learn something today.
I like NASCAR the best I just like the sound of them taking the lugnuts out and putting them back in I know I’m weird it just has a satisfying sound
I could just imagine in formula e someone changes car but trips and falls
it would be so funny
F1 the best, because it needs much more team synchorization and it is REALLY quick
No. It requires a lot less synchronization. Every one has one tiny, tiny thing to do and they do it separately.
NASCAR on the other hand has most people with a few jobs and needing to closely interact with each other in perfect timing.
they do need to be synchronized as if they aren't it can cost heavily, as when they generally count on a pitstop taking around 2.3-2.8 seconds if they aren't synchronized it may take around 3 seconds and on GPs where its difficult to overtake, losing a stop due to a bad pitstop can lose you the race. hope that makes sense
@@SamBrickell Mistakes in F1 are very costly to the drivers
F1 races would be better with slower stops and more of them.
Le Mans 1991-2017 is better, quicker per person and requires more team synchronisation
This is the 4th time I've watched this just because I love pit stops soooo much
The toughest gp pit stops ive seen were in an old Castrol documentary film.
Pre war, Knock of hubs an asbestos sheet thown over the drivers neck while the fuel was poured in with oversized buckets.
Not heard of for them to miss the quick release filler cap which was 6inches across and it went straight on the power plant and driver resulting in instant flamb'e
That new formula e is just beautiful, same goes to the new indycar
Timi Akinlonu yh but for some reason the halo looks worse on the formula e than on the formula 1
I can see why but I do like it
Somebody hates FE, because they are electric cars, but I love it!! 😁
Z. Bendegúz Winkler I like it and I'll watch it if its on but I don't follow it as closely as I follow f1
I actually think the HALO looks better with the Formula E car than the F1 Cars..
I still feel like the F1 pitstop is just incredible. Having such a fast in and out to the point where you'd think the wheels are still rolling is absolutely ludicrous.
Depending on the endurance series, minimum pitstop times can be put into affect.
AWS has minimum times for all classes of drivers... And the ADAC 24H nurburgring its based on your number of laps
Amazing explanation
Endurance seemed pretty cool but I am within a couple hours of Talladega so I gotta give my vote to NASCAR.
Endurance Racing is, in fact, less relaxed than any other series.
Particularly consider GTE in WEC and GTLM in IMSA WSC are probably the 2 most competitive categories in the world right now.
That should be a great concept!
Back when I was on a pit crew, On SCCA road courses the pit lane is considered part of the race track and has no speed restrictions. Changing tires on an course with a really long pit road like Willow Springs was terrifying.
What about the sound comparison between the motor sports?
アレキサンダー 佐藤 F1 would lose
Random Guy37 FE would lose, but as a fan of FE I think the sound is unique and really cool
you just want a video bashing FE, don't you? ;)
NASCAR, nothing beats a V8 going at full tilt
You are asking the right questions
1:35 Bwoah?
Id love to have seen Supercars in this, with their on-car jacks and such
yea lol
and when they have to change the brake pads and refuel
The white lines changing from car to cara was on point!
NASCAR reduced the number of pit crew members that can go over the wall to 5 this year and the gascan man has two jobs 1) refuel the car and 2) kick the tire towards the pit wall. Pit stops now take between 14 and 16 sec to be completed. Also one member is responsible for removing a tear-off from the car's windshield
I love the IndyCar method
Until someone pops your car in the ass and sends it to you sideways. 😁
F1 also has a backup front jack man for the pit stop and possibly a backup rear jack man
I wonder if there’s a video out there of a driver tripping and falling over trying to scramble between cars in a Formula E car swap
I miss the lolipop in F1
So driders getting smacked in the face/helmet with it
Haha
But its ice cream these days
There is now a kid of stop ad go light idea insteat off lollipop
Good video well done
I like all of them for being orgnizized and fast and also using teamwork and trust that from team mates and trust from the driver
I love the nascar one just because the funny brrrr that the guns make
(I know that they switched to 1 lug tires but 5 lugs are still my favorite)
(also they still use five lugs in the truck and xfinity series so shhh)
NASCARS are kinda like the Amish , technology is OK as long as its 20 years behind.
etil hcir We have digital dashboards. That's the most modern we get. We stay traditional.
It’s called stock cars for a reason
Are they on dsl yet?
@Brandon Devine wdym
NASCAR still required cars to have carburetors instead of fuel injection until 2012.
I think endurance has the best pit stops because LMP1 cars have to pit 30 times it makes the motor sport harder and more interesting.
For sure, much more of a fan of the less crew members + more work kinds of pit stops
EliteJerk im also confused by their wording of „stops take between 30-40s“
WEC and German Version VLN both have mandatory standing times depending on laps driven (or time left in the race for the last hour approximatly). In the qualifying race for the 24h Nürburgring, if you pitted ~65min before end of the race you had a mandatory standing time of 195s i believe.
What im trying to say is, that while the „important stuff“ refuelling, tire change, window cleaning, driver change and so on surely are optimized, if you need to stay put afterwards anyways due to regulations it causes less stress, therefore less mistakes are made and its safer for everyone (and also fair in a 24h race, because Pit Time should be the same for everyone, disregarding the amount of stops)
Edit: just searched for it and apparently the mandatory stopping time isnt a thing in WEC... interesting.
"because Pit Time should be the same for everyone"
NO, if your pit crew is better and does the job in less time the TEAM (yes Motorsport is a teamsport and the pit crew is a part of that) should gain some time!
its not a thing in most endurance races. Some races like VLN or 24 hours of nurb have this rule to stop some lower end teams from making unsafe pit stops. Dont forget there are some much slower cars, and they wont have the same gadgets and tools as the GT3 cars will. As those teams on the lower end of the classes are more "amateur" (wrong word but i lack another one), its unwise to pressure them into making a blinding fast pit stop, only to find that they left a wheel nut loose and the tyre comes flying off half way around a 9 minute lap, thats a looooong way from home when that happens.
Amazing video
The fastest F1 pit stop was 1:86 but that was with 20 people working on the car.
*Guido did it all by himself in 3.3 seconds*
f1 has always had my favorite pit stops. Always loved how everything is so quick and looks organised
Hang on. Doesn't F1 also have two *spare* jack men, one at each end?
Phil Rodgers that's true
there are also people watching over the pit lane and the car for safe release I believe
There is no restrictions
Yupp, and they have more if they’re doing a front wing change too I believe
Negative. If they do a front wing change, the two guys whose task is adjusting front flap perform the front wing change.
Great Video
Great information! I would enjoy knowing the training a person must do in order to perform their job... Is there a campion or a legend name that has a title? Having such title as the best of the best should be given to???? Bob
Imagine how fast, concentrated, and athletic the pit crews must be to do all of this so fast
My favourite pit stop is Guidi who changes all 4 tires from McQueen's car in 1.5 seconds on his own. (Any cars fans over here?)
i havent seen f1 since schumacher era. now i watch it again it blew my mind, from 7 sec pit stop, to 2 sec.
1:18 Now you would have a example for this situation
thx stroll
4:36 that’s Alex Lynn’s car, I know him really well!!
Did I ask?
They changed the thumbnail on this video
I knew I wasn't the only one that noticed
@@lucasbailey8878 yes
You should make an updated version of this
I have watched this about 5 times and I will again.