The History of the Pit Stop - Extended interview with Gordon Murray

[@jameswilsher73]

He interviews so well, then again, he's had a lot of practice. Legend.

[@barbaravogtmann9621]

A bit of replay as you go along , bringing the same topic up again , so it seems !

[@omaryhassan6477]

Excellent interview Murry, absolute legend!!!!

[@jabulilelephallo5024]

Who can Deny that Piquet and the Parmalat Brabham was the ultimate F1 combination of all time. Murray Eccelstone Blash Whiting, Piquet the colours the whole look just to this day excites me.... O and NPK had the best helmet design ever.... In case you haven't guessed it yet I am a HUGE Piquet fan

[@duneideannaer5990]

Jabulile Lephallo “Aaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyr-tonnn Senna do Brassseeewll”

[@duneideannaer5990]

Jabulile Lephallo ohh & I totally agree with you where the Brabham car is concerned. My favourite is the 1986 Jps Lotus 98T. The curves, the Renault turbo rasps but mostly the car’s squiggly, twitchy behaviour. Admittedly more Ayrton’s throttle stabs, but put it all together - very exciting.......

[@483972]

Senna Behind the wheel of the MP 4/4 ..having Prost as a rival in equal car :) ... Formula one never got above that level

[@srinitaaigaura]

I wonder what in Formula 1 wasn't discovered or developed to another level by Gordon Murray. This man is in a totally other category of his own.

[@matsinkal]

Nothing according to him but i saw an eye opener about him Designing the Mp4-4 the other day. I think Gordon is a bit full of himself now and likes to tell a few pork pies when he thinks it will make him sound better. But he is still great just take somethings with a grain of salt.

[@MNlotus1]

and before him was Colin Chapman, the king of finding loopholes in rules. As Colin Chapman said, "Simplify and add lightness." Its amazing that someone can still produce a car to Colin Chapmans standards. Lotus was the first to use ground effects, among a bunch of other innovations that are still used to this day. The T50 is the last of its kind. Gordan always followed Colins philosophy. As a Lotus owner, I'm amazed at the work he has done. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hafPo5-or519bK8 Gordan took all of the Lotus innovations and ran with it, here is what Lotus started.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJXIk2hmnNyhpdE

[@Formula1Madx]

Early in 1982 in the South African GP Alain Prost in the Renault, who was leading, got a puncture halfway through the race. He obviously had to come in for a pit stop to change tyres & when he came out he was over a lap behind the leaders. He then absolutely flew setting lap records & (admittedly with some helpful retirements) came back to win the race. A few months later Murray starts doing tactical pit stops for tyres & fuel. I've often wondered if the seeds of what Gordon came up with started that day in Kyalami after what happened to Alain 🤔

[@weallfollowmanutd]

I think that was also the race where Renault took the rest of the season for granted. If they didn't get so aggressive on the turbo improvements in the following races and headed for pure reliability, they would've comfortably won the championship. Hindsight is a wonderful thing I suppose, but the 1982 season was a wasted year, because most turbo teams had terrible reliability.

[@waynemanna1402]

I really enjoy interviews with the great F1 designers and MUrray is always so good to listen to. For me, the fascination of the creative process that underpins an advantage on the track is immense and they are all able to really articulate so well what they did and how they were thinking. The story of how Brabham bluffed Renault, winning Piquet the 1983 championship is brilliant. Teams probably try stuff all the time and fail, but that was really clever stuff. Murray and the unsung F1 designer, David North were a fantastic design team in Brabham days. Sda that like Barnard and Head, Murray's F1 design career sort of petered out, although he has gone on the carve out a great career in road car design.

[@Miklos82]

All the discussion by Murray is interesting, but some visual's of what he was talking about would help.

[@nordimejia5790]

starman1968ful use your imagination!

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Very nice. Thank you for your great interview.

[@gioponti6359]

This is really phantastic, tx for sharing!

[@FormulaVoyage]

Glad you like it!

[@dimitrijensk2845]

11:00 the most genius solution is often the most simple. Love that!

[@483972]

when he speaks ... I can see what he says)... epic personality

[@jasongillard6185]

Amazing!

[@meta4282]

Quite a few pioneers from South Africa.

[@jimjimmy3131]

I know he said that the Gordon Murray Automotive ( GMA ) would only build NA V12 but I am sure that if Gordon desides to build a turbo engine car it would be the best turbocharged supercar to have been ever built . The T50 alone is the Halo car , not only of the GMA but for the whole scene of the modern supercar market and history . The T33 is as well the top of the top of car engineering beauty of a car .

[@breatharian2009]

Steve Nichols designed the MP4/4 on display on his table back there!

[@justintse4017]

16:06 what a brilliant brain, look at the smirk at 16:11 too

[@TheCorrectionist1984]

why is it doubled up like that?

[@har234908234]

Two camera angles so you can hide edits later... no idea why it's posted here.

[@mattiik]

Fascinating

[@SachiGortchi]

can I not share with defining a certain start point ?

[@aljohnson7896]

One a few days he said he was going to come I actually

[@frankmorgan2772]

What about this ideia of heating up the tyres? I've heard it was PIQUET's ideia, he was using before F1 !!

[@kornonacob]

Gordon smoke weed ...thats why he is genius

[@royjamsran6797]

#Legend. Someday i will be just like him.

[@Theducksavilerowshow]

Steve Nichols (40 years later): “Hey! I’m the one who came up with strategic pit stops.” 😫

[@kakowood]

Gordon forgets that in the 1957 German Grand Prix, Juan Manuel Fangio used tires that were not good enough for the full distance, and he scheduled a pit stop for changing tires at half the distance. The Maserati team took a minute an a half to refuel and change the tires, one mechanic managed to drop the wheel nut, forcing Fangio unto his most incredible demonstration to retake the lead from the Ferraris of Collins and Hawthorn.

[@Saugusari11]

if you watched the video you would know he mentioned the 50s pitstops…..smh

[@MegaCm123456]

But that's a pits stop due to necessity in the same way that fuel runs out. Also the tyres ran out in this case. Its not strategic.

[@TheGabe92]

Murray fails to mention that strategic pit stops had been tried as early as the 1950s, albeit with mixed success (example: Fangio's strategy in the German GP 1957).

[@aljohnson7896]

Talk to you from Asian one before then I had a memory realize

[@Pete-z6e]

Al Johnson ,Fascinating.

[@aljohnson7896]

I'm a jokester sometimes on hand it doesn't mean I can't take McLaren and all motoring to the next step and steps me beyond

[@Pete-z6e]

Al Johnson , Fascinating.

[@BobGeogeo]

As much respect as Murray deserves, he should at least note routine, and sometimes innovative pit stops in US racing well before the 1980s -- and of course sports car + endurance bracing everywhere.

[@on_wheels_80]

I have the impression that there was quite a bit of snobbism going on in F1 with regards to innovation in other racing formats, let alone the world outside of racing altogether. The whole aerodynamic topic for instance. F1 constructors used planes to fly between venues for decades until they came up with the idea of downforce, and even then is was some time after it was already practiced at Indy or Can Am. To be fair though, we can't quite imagine how tedious it was to come by information about technical progress in these days. No interwebs back then.

[@Rentta]

He invented pitstops in F1 not in general. Pitstops have been a thing for ages especially in endurance racing

[@aljohnson7896]

I used to talk to you all the time on my first house and give you a future God's plans in mind

[@wayneh5740]

Gordon Murray. Durban's greatest export!

[@user-gu1hl2kx2k]

we need refueling back

[@andresil8330]

Piquet was responsible to create (alongside with Gordon many times) many innovations that are still used till today and was also 3x World Champion but people almost don’t recognize him. Maybe because he was kind of an a$$?

[@aljohnson7896]

I don't want to go Blastoise tested away the name of that you're my father

[@MNlotus1]

Gordan Murray or Adrian Newey.....? T50 or Valkyrie.....??

[@filipborin555]

I can't see any giant killers. both 1982 and 1983 seasons were take by Ferrari and Renault.

[@aljohnson7896]

If you want Gordon you can track my phone to find me

[@justintse4017]

What is with South Africa and engineering genius... Gordon Murray and now Elon Musk

[@aljohnson7896]

Hey Gordon I tested with my Android

[@filipborin555]

btw Murray stole the idea from the American CART series wherw the pit stop refueling was a normal situation from the 70s.But with much more sophisticated equipment.

[@aljohnson7896]

The number one race when is the kidney in their home alone what race I drove the race for you and I want

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

Hilarious to hear a legend of F1 talking about innovating something that NASCAR and Indy Car had been doing for over a decade.

[@Rentta]

And endurance racing before those two

[@techtipsuk]

I doubt to this level. Someone as smart as Murray would have known to look at other formulas before embarking on his own designs.

[@fernandosfjr]

Nascar and Indy are completely irrelevant. Who cares about old fat white guys running in circles?

[@karlreisa3872]

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[@zachlee7945]

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