F1 Pit Stop Times Over The Years
Per wikipedia whose memory is better than mine f1 pit stops usually took between six and 12 seconds in the late aughts depending on how much fuel was needed.
F1 pit stop times over the years. Im not sure if youre asking by what means the pitstop time in f1 has reduced or by how much. This is the story of the mavericks who invented the techniques and technologies that took the pit stop from minutes long to less than two seconds. Currently just the four tyres require changing during a pit stop. Its been three years since the ban on refuelling and in that time theres been a pitstop technology race.
Fifteen years later an effective pit stop was about 45 seconds. Red bull racing holds the record for the fastest time having registered a time of 205 seconds at the start of the 2013 season. What can be done in the time it takes to blink. In 1984 though in race refuelling was banned leading.
So ill answer both of those questions. New benchmark stop. The cars were fuelled at 12 liters per second. Average pit stop time through years 1950 1965 1970 1980 1985 1993 1995 2003 2008 2010 2013 2014 2015 2016 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 years time in seconds in the 1950s pit stops had an average time of almost 67 seconds.
In fact a little under one and a half seconds in some cases. The 1982 pit stop shown in the video marked the first time in modern f1 that cars stopped to refuel mid race rather than just for new tyres. How much from minutes to seconds. In the early 70s this time dropped to almost 27 seconds.
The pit stop time lasted for 6 to 12 seconds which depended on how much fuel is needed by the car to finish the race. Red bulls 192 second time in 2013 was actually the first pit stop to sneak in under the 20 second mark when it comes to official times.