The Red Bull pit crew have challenged themselves to make a complete stop in the general darkness, with Max Verstappen, Christian Horner and Sergio Perez guessing how fast they can do it. (6:37)
The Red Bull Formula 1 World Champion team demonstrated their pit prevention prowess by completing a pit prevention in total darkness in just 2. 84 seconds.
Until this year’s Qatar Grand Prix, Red Bull held the world record for the fastest pit stop ever achieved in F1, with a time of 1. 82 seconds, set at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix.
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McLaren beat that mark by 0. 02 seconds in October.
In a video posted on its social media this week, Red Bull showed the strength of its pit prevent unit, one of the fastest on the grid, in what it called the “Pitch Black Pit Stop”, held at its Formula 1 facility. headquarters in Milton Keynes, England.
The challenge required its mechanics to conduct the stop on muscle memory alone.
The team gave themselves 10 tries to see what the quickest effort would be. After about 10 seconds, the team cut the time to 2. 84 seconds by the end of the event.