The Fascinating History of the Pit Stops

In Formula 1, Pit stops are really important, the cars are the best they have ever been, and the drivers are incredible, 100th of even 10th of seconds count, so a Pit Stop can either win a race, or lose it, and when you see the Pit Stops they preform today, they are quick, but this was not always the case, Pit Stops were part of the sport from the very beginning in the 50s, so this is the incredible history of the Pit Stops, from the early 50s to today, how they reduced the time from 67 seconds to 1.82 seconds.
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[@rash-id]

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[@harrycop7944]

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[@rocketman561]

An interesting fact about the modern pitstop is one of the big pioneers of the choreographed pit stop was a NASCAR team called the Wood Brothers Racing, who's pit crew also helped with pit stops during the 24 hours of Le Mans race in i believe 1966 for Ford, and also helped win the 1965 Indy 500 for Lotus, generally speaking, many people tout them as being the inventors of the modern pit stop.

[@Dat-Mudkip]

The Wood Brothers tried to find an advantage in places most people didn't think to look. In the early years of NASCAR, tire changes were not a regular occurrence. Save for Darlington's Southern 500, most races were around 100 miles, which could easily handle just one set of tires (assuming nothing went amiss). Whenever teams did have to change tires (most notably in the Southern 500) teams would take their time changing the tires. In fact, it actually wasn't uncommon for the driver to physically cut the engine, get out of the car, smoke a cigarette, and get back in the car with time to spare. The Wood Brothers realized that if you minimized how long you spent on pit road, you could spend more time on the track. While their pit stops were by no means fast (by today's standards), it did not take long before the competitors took notice. The team decided to take it a step further at this point, a started to regularly practice pit stops until they were extremely efficient at it. The Wood Brothers are largely credited with getting Jim Clark to victory lane in the 1965 Indianapolis 500 after Ford hired them for the sole purpose of making a fast pit stop. It should be noted that even into the 1970s, pit stops in NASCAR were still slow - it was not uncommon practice during a full course caution for a team to bring a driver in, change just the left side tires, send him back out to avoid being lapped by the pace car, and then bring him back in a second time to change the right side tires.

[@kailahmann1823]

They still do right side only sometimes as a strategy move to gain positions. This is faster, because NASCAR has only mechanics for one side and they'd have to move to the other. Making this move fast was once invented by Junior Johnson, who was a master in finding loopholes and is often stated to have "written half the rulebook". Swinging around the car jack while running around the front had the welcomed side effect of keeping the watching official at distance or knocking him over :) But yes, the Wood Brothers brought the idea of orchestrated pit stops over to Indycar in 1965, where it had been perfectioned since then - so what Brabham did in the early 80s in F1 was basically copying Indycar stops.

[@HighlandCall]

The Wood Brothers thing at Indy is slightly exaggerated in historical retellings - the cars at that point were allowed to carry vast amounts of fuel (in 1964 there were cars that could have theoretically gone non-stop for all 200 laps but they also didn't care about secure storage and so there was a big crash at the end of lap 1 with a lot of fire) and the tyres lasted all race so all they needed to do during the race was refuel Clark's car at his two scheduled pit stops. Its an interesting point and an indication of the importance that Chapman put into winning at Indianapolis but it had very little impact on the actual result.

[@Dat-Mudkip]

@@HighlandCall Just because a tire lasted the entire race doesn't mean that they wanted to.

[@currentbatches6205]

Yep,

[@bobsugden551]

There's no mention of Fangio's pit stop at the German GP of 1957. One of the wheel nuts of his Maserati got lost under the car, and it took half a minute to find it. Fangio's subsequent chase, and repassing, of the Ferraris of Hawthorne and Collins made it one of the greatest drives in F1 history.

[@SongJLikes]

Even if pit stops used to take over a minute, each team STILL had to do it faster than other teams… so no matter what, every second counts.

[@diptorr1014]

Ferrari proving the trinity wrong with strategy

[@juliusfucik4011]

I would like to add "strategy" to the triangle to obtain a rectangle.

[@awehellnah]

i think strategy should be part of the pitstop corner

[@luichinplaystation610]

That Red Bull pit stop was so amazing that even Mercedez have to complain enough to change the rules

[@mrskeeps4446]

You definately deserve more subscribers, the quality of this video is incredible. Keep up the good work!

[@rash-id]

Thx! I really appreciate it!

[@carmatic]

@@rash-id i'm still trying to get used to 'engine' pronounced as 'engyne'

[@Cheedee]

Incredible video, I myself am a huge F1 fan and still learned stuff I didn't know ! Subscribed !

[@splinte111]

great video! I find it funny how you can pronounce engineer but not engine xD

[@f0urstr1ng]

Nicely written and presented mate. Enjoyed ty

[@rash-id]

Thank you, I really appreciate it, this is great motivation.

[@TheGabyGail]

Well made & interesting video. I like the variety on your channel. If you keep this up, you will blow up no doubt, good stuff!

[@ouready4120]

Always wondred how a pit stop worked ( didn't even know the name of it tbh ) Thank you for the info !

[@miloiscool2007]

thanks! this video really helped.

[@jonathanshore5768]

Amazing videos Thank you for your creation

[@jacekatalakis8316]

The whole idea of run a car under the legal weight limit then make a pit stop to make the car legal is both hilarious, and and resulted in a 200mph shotgun. It sprayed lead shot all over the pits in 1984. Cue Tyrrell getting an entire library thrown at them. And...then some, though pit stops had been in other orms of racing since the 50s as well, not just F1

[@alantaylor2694]

A most excellent video, utterly fascinating. Thank you.

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[@rash-id]

Thx! coming from someone like you, it's really motivating, thank you.

[@TheToso86]

This is a very well polished video, well done man! Hope to see your channel grow!

[@TroyMakesGames]

Great video, really enjoyed the history

[@BarneyAcaron]

Dope video. Thank you.

[@malachis1447]

Great video!! Loved the GT4 music in the background, took me back!!

[@rash-id]

GT music is a masterpiece.

[@frickin_robin]

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[@rash-id]

Thx!

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[@BLENDITE]

You forgot goatifi in the sacred trinity.

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The quality of this video is CRAZY for a channel having less than 1k subs! The F1 youtube community is crazy talented.

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[@mj_owen]

Very fascinating!

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Great video, covered so much without any blabbering 👍🏼

[@mowvu5380]

i love the enjyne so much

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[@davedavid4448]

I love an efficient enjine

[@eyadayman04]

great video

[@chrisrockett1389]

I would say the triangle should be : Car - Driver - Strategy (inclucing pitstops).

[@harrycop7944]

Interesting video🙂 Good job keep it up💪

[@rash-id]

Thanks!

[@harrycop7944]

@@rash-id no problem

[@MAZ_dah]

A well made video you deserve more attention

[@rash-id]

Thanks!

[@carmatic]

I've read in an article that the pit crew in F1 races are more like athletes than mechanics

[@Thomasnmi]

Both

[@larsdud1]

Great job on the video! Good english too for a non native speaker 😊

[@myphone7568]

I think you would find the evolution of rebuilding engines in NHRA top fuel and funny cars very interesting. The insane precision and speed with which they work is just incredible.

[@daankoopmans6621]

this video is so good.

[@currentbatches6205]

And long before the Wood Brothers revolutionized pit-stops, Lou Moore designed Indy cars (taking advantage of the energy-density of post war gasoline) to avoid them: A one-pit-stop race car for the 500!

[@Ben94]

Refuelling got banned in 2010, not 2009

[@cuy50]

Quality video I would expect from a larger channel. Thanks

[@xys381]

Good video

[@rash-id]

Thx, I really appreciate it!

[@Ben94]

Verstappen’s car burning didn’t occur during the same tragic weekend. That weekend happened at Imola, Verstappen’s car caught fire in Hockenheim roughly half a season later

[@rhyssullivan8071]

He means same weekend as in both deaths being on the same weekend

[@flamingburritto]

Damn looking at the quality of the video I thought you were a big channel. You should be. Hope it happens. (Tho I would recommend getting a better mic or recording in a better area)

[@rash-id]

Thx! and yeah I agree, I'm working on it, soon I will have a better mic.

[@tonyperez5360]

, excellent

[@leonardosoaresfuks294]

i think its not a triangle, its a square, including team strategie (@ferrari)

[@frankgowalski1345]

Thanks for posting !! Can I bother you with a question ? Where did you source the cover picture (of the McLaren) of this video ? Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Stripez517]

where did you get the animations from i want to make it my back ground

[@Afrob0y7]

Sorry but 115 liters in 3 seconds ??? Last modern years of fueling in f1 had a fuel flow of 12 liters per second. Please show the information source…

[@rash-id]

Gordon Murray said it on the RedBull Documentary, you can find it on their website, he said it at around 15:00

[@patrickramzin5325]

Great video, but I thought it was Ferrari that introduced the traffic light system to release the cars, not Red Bull.. am I wrong?

[@NemysisPrime]

Engyne... I love how you pronounce it

[@notsydew]

One tip I could give is to make the music volume a bit higher. Anyway, great job with the video!

[@alexfrance500]

There was me enjoying a video where the music isn't too loud for once ;P

[@conceptualmessiah01]

If I was a dictator, only myself, the Emperor of the World, could use purple avatars. You are lucky. I'm not quite there yeti.

[@conceptualmessiah01]

Down vote. 😡

[@karlosh9286]

takes longer than 1.82 secs to get my road car tyres changed ! 😀

[@MP422ownz]

"Piss Tops" LOL

[@robertheymann5906]

Box! Box! Box! From... Boxenstop

[@gustavofaria95]

Why it's not showing Jos on fire???

[@CarimboHanky]

14:20 then for no reason pit stops of under 2 seconds were banned 🤣😂

[@Stimm002]

It should be "tenths or even hundredth count." A hundredth is smaller than a tenth of a second. The 1st .0 is tenths, the .00 is hundredths and the .000 is thousandths of a second. You jist said it the wrong way around. Great content though, thankyou.

[@DennisJWilson]

Can pit stops cause you go from 1st place to last place in race

[@EricIrl]

TYhe beginning of the sport was 1906 - not the 1950s.

[@marguskiis7711]

Bullshit about 1970s. Those days change of tires was pretty obvious with varing conditions and the teams trained pit stops carefully. In 1970s a change of tires took ca 10 seconds.

[@rash-id]

You are talking about tire change, I talked about the pit stop as a whole, refueling was allowed in the 70s, and when I said 2-3 minutes, I didn't come up with this number, I think that it was Gordon Murray who talked about it in the documentary made by RedBull.

[@alexfrance500]

@@rash-id but you showed a graph (2:11) that showed different to what you later said... As I'm in nit-picking mode that clip from the 50's at the start is used a few too many times & it is pronounced En-gin (think gin & tonic) not En-jine. But that is being quite critical - overall an excellent & superbly presented video!

[@BLENDITE]

Damn, that’s slow as hell. I mean, the record sits at 1.82, and the modern record with the new low profile, 18 inch tyres is held by McLaren, at 1.92 seconds. Then there is of course also the time added due to the 80kph speed limit. I mean, the difference between a Williams and a Red Bull or ferrari can be around that time during a single lap. And these are 70 to 85(?) lap races.

[@alexfrance500]

I suppose there is confusion by the fact that the time lost by a pit stop in its entirety is different to the time it takes to perform a pit stop

[@conceptualmessiah01]

I pit my stop.

[@harrycop7944]

I stop my pit.

[@Astronomynatureandmusic]

Is it forbidden now to have a pit stop in under 2 seconds?

[@rash-id]

Yeah kind of, above 2.5-3 seconds is considered slow

[@simdawg2932]

ITS PILOTS, NOT DRIVERS

[@captiannemo1587]

How? You go to NASCAR…

[@captiannemo1587]

Nascar created the fast pit stop in the mid 60s.

[@t.xaviersalgado4106]

please, work on your accent. it doesn't match the quality of the video

[@theguythatplaysrallyfuryat]

its not the accent, he scretches the end of the words for no reason

[@freedomfighter5095]

Digging the PePe. Total kek

[@nykxssss]

the trinity is car-driver-strategy/tires. pitstop is part of strategy