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20 minutes to break down a 2 second pitstop. That in itself shows how much is going on

had a lot of trouble finding felipe before you circled him out

It would take me longer to just open my door and look at my tires.

I'm surprised Pit Crews don't have their own names. They certainly deserve the recognition.

good vid , brilliant there's no stupid music , top man ,

Imagine standing right in front of a car approaching at 80km/h and stay in your place high respect for the front jackman

I can't believe I just spent 1,287 seconds watching a 2 second pit stop. Great video, thank you.

F1: Jacks the car up AND changes 4 tires in 2 seconds! Discount Tire: That'll be...about 2 - 3 hours. You gonna wait or leave the car and pick it up later?

Pit Crew: We're 23 Guys and done our Job in 2 Seconds. Guido: ............

Video begins Me: OMG why is this video 20 minutes long? 20 minutes later Me: It's almost over already?

Nice video! Well done. However, I think you forgot to mention that the wheel guns and the front jack send signals to the light traffic, therefore they have this twisted cables. It is supposed that the wheel gun as soon as it looses contact with the wheel nut it sends a signal of "ready" to the light traffic and the front jack. Also the jackman will see the green light in his jack and he will just press the release button. This button sends the signal as well to the traffic light. So the chief mechanic who supervises the operation won't need to wait until all wheel guns raise their hands. Though, he can override the light if something goes wrong. I saw this in an interview in Sky Sports. This system was an improvement of the Ferrari's who was the first team to introduce the traffic light in pit stops (Remember Singapore 2007 when Massa was leading and the chief mechanic pressed the release button while they were refueling the car and Felipe started and broke the fuel hose).

meanwhile it takes an afternoon for me to make an oil change on my 2005 clio :D

This is as interesting or more so than watching an actual race! Great analysis!

Spare Jackman has the most unfulfilling job in the history of F1. Mrs. Spare Jackman--"Hi, honey. How was work today?" Spare Jackman --"Please don't."

Very interesting video, huge organisation for a 2 second pit stop. Notice the tireman putting the wheel back on carries a spare wheel nut on his right side.

It’s actually beautiful to watch The precision, the mastery of a task, working as one. like a fine Swiss watch It’s hysterical

This might be the quintessential example of teamwork. It’s really amazing to watch the choreography in action. So impressive

Wow, this video is absolutely fascinating. I really didn't know how many men made up the crew, and how much precision and accuracy is required for a 2 second burst of work. Incredible. Many thanks.

This is just incredible choreography on display, the hours of training required must be immense. Not to mention the engineering involved. I really hope the pit staff won't get replaced by robotics in the near future.

The front Hugh Jackman needs a backup in case he gets run over

When you have *one* job to do, and you *do it perfectly.*

As someone who studies engineering and is into logical processes... This was porn. Thank you for making this!

When I started watching this video I noticed that it's 21 minutes long. I wasn't going to watch all 21 minutes of it. I was intending to watch just a few minutes out of curiosity. 21 minutes later, I'm still watching the video.

I’ve been looking for a video on pit stops like this for years. Thank you!! Really amazing how well and detailed you covered it

Great analysis. The pit crews do so much, so fast and so well, but we as fans don't hear too much about their procedures. It is fascinating. Thanks, a new subscriber.

Absolutely brilliant analysis of amazing teamwork. Nice!

A 23-men ballet, the synchronisation is just amazing.

That 2 seconds must take hours & hours (& hours!) of practice. They're like the domestiques in the Tour de France. Whoever wears the yellow jersey would NOT be doing so without them.

This deserves a game. Pit Crew Simulator, pretty sure that exists or will exist soon?

I really appreciated this video. Seriously top quality content - from the knowledge to the graphics. Saved to my 'F1 tech/analysis' playlist!

A poor pitstop can ruin a whole race.

It's a beautiful ballet of symmetry and time and motion genius. Great breakdown of the action. Thanks for the video.

At the beginning, I was like, heck no, I'm not gonna waste 21 minutes to see this! At the end: that's it? I thought it was longer Lol

100% down for a 20 minute breakdown of 2 (sorta) seconds.

Man when its in slow frame it really hits ya.such perfect sync that he hits gas before everyone's clear.looks like gears turning more than humans.

They should try "changing the oil and servicing a Bugatti Veyron in less than an hour".

Thank You for super detailed 2 sec pit stop - watching in real time, one gets very little view of it - but always amazing. The fuel stop I suspect - for safety reasons - probably best not to get involved during tire changes. Being there's always raw fuel exposed. Has to be the most dangerous mission. Cheers, and glad this episode was made to view in my preview stack @!

Pit crews are just as important as the Driver! They can make or break a race in a split second!

Excellent analysis! Showing the precision and dedication of the unsung heroes of F1 teams.

Thank you for making this video! It is very informative and I learned a lot from it :)

Amazing video, love this kind of content

I recently subbed this channel and this came up as a recommended video. In the early 90s when the CART Grand Prix came to town, I was a firefighter and CART put out a call to area fire departments for volunteers to work the practices & races. I was able to work as the firefighter in the pit for Rick Mears three years in a row. I did get to help extinguish a fire but it wasn’t the Mears team affected. Thanks for an awesome video and conjuring up the memories of the great time I had in a once in a lifetime (okay, three) experience!

That was an excellent explanation of an F1 pit stop! It is often one of the most exciting part of the race. I love learning more about the people behind the scenes in F1. Thank you!

I think it was McLaren's pit crew who helped Great Ormond St Hospital to fix their procedures in the operating theatre. Saved a lot of children's lives.

Great video and breakdown! They make it look so easy and when watching it live you can't appreciate the complexity of what they're doing in 2 seconds - poetry in motion.

Awesome video explaining the amazing ballet that works together for these lightening fast pit stops

That was so interesting! I really like how you went into detail and explained everything with such knowledge.

front jackman getting double pay. Im risking my life

Massa got such fast pit crews, too bad fernando is faster than him.

Well done. Best step by step I've seen yet

YES! I was looking for this video for a long time, so sad to know it was removed

Another proper video mate! How frustrating for Williams to gain a half second two times for pitstops and then lose 2 - 3 seconds per lap for 60 laps 😱😓

Great explanation.. thanks man...

Thanks, this was exactly the video I was looking for. It amazes me how fast pitstops can be done and this gave a nice in depth explanation of what is going on there.

This is an awesome analysis of a F1 pit stop. Thanks so much for making this video.

So you've drawn pretty circles around everyone but the "spare" rear jack man is just hanging there wondering where his nice coloured circle is?

Great job on this, I learned a lot. I’m left with one question though. You explained very well the change in the wheel nut from the old hexagonal design. I assume that the socket on the wheel gun grabs, and holds, the wheel nut so that as the new tire is placed, the wheel gun man just has to drive the captured nut back on the spindle. The question then is, does the socket capture and hold the wheel nut?

Fascinating! Thank you for breaking this down.

Fantastic analysis packed with keen observations.

I have done this a few times ….. you would be shocked at how light F1 tyres and rims are ….. much lighter than a wheel from even a small car like a Mini.

6:51 front jackman, spare front jackman, rear jackman, spare rear jackman. You forgot the most important jackman. Hugh Jackman.

This is beautiful! Like art!! I’ve always wondered. Thank you for sharing

so not only the crews are the factor of a succesful fast pit stop, but the driver also is responsible to stop the car on the line marker as accurately as possible. high amount of trust between the pit crews and the driver.. respect...

Red Bull pit-stop crew: in 2 seconds you say!?...that's kinda slow!

I heard Front and Rear Jackman's brother Hugh made a career in acting instead.. :P

I watched your video yesterday and boy ...how right you proved to be today, in Portugal GP F1. We saw Riccardo just stopping 20cm further away from optimum and paid the price with 4.8sec pit stop!!! That definitely shows how precise you have to be in F1

Amazing in-depth details given here. For a starter like me , it gave me huge amount of knowledge . Thanks so much

Question: the guys doing the pitstop, is that their only job during a race weekend? Are they there specifically for this? Or do they for example double as engineers?

1st of all Im a die hard F1 fan. Now, want to make the racing more exciting?? Limit the number of crew that pit the car to 7. The results will make the on track action awesome.

Great Video, very informative, less then 2 second 4 tires changing, amazing, now I know each and every pit stop crew

This is definitely the best background content for F1. Next video - double pit stop ;)

At 16:20 one of the lads has a spare wheel nut on his waist. Same ethos as having 2 jack-men.

Shame Williams cant be as brilliant in building a fast car like they used to.

Great super informative explanation of the pit stop!!! 👍🏼👍🏼

Excellent analysis. I've watched hundreds of pit stops but I have a much better understanding, and appreciation, of what I'm looking at now.

I want the job of just wiping the rear wing lol

So how does a fuel stop work.

These guys are impressive. Pit crews remind me so much of cannon crewmembers. Speed and precision are absolutely paramount and trying to couple both of them requires a lot of training. One without the other is useless. There’s so many things that can go wrong and each of those can create a cumulative effect on the other portions of the process. So far as the guy eyeing the tire as it rolls in, that’s almost like a tunnel vision focus. On an M119 howitzer, if you want to shoot fast, your assistant gunner will be focusing in on the breech handle and when the cannon fires they will immediately hit the breech handle to eject the canister before the cannon has even finished recovering and returning forward from the recoil. It’s a split second but it clears the cannon tube (barrel) so that the cannoneer #1 can begin loading the next round in the gun as quickly as possible. The guys standing around seemingly doing nothing also have their equivalents in artillery. On every cannon there will be one: a section chief. They observe the crew drills for safety, verify that the rounds, shell fuse combinations, powder increments, sight picture, leveling bubbles and firing data are all correct, and they ensure all the crew are safe before firing. Stuff like looking to see if the troops have cleared themselves away from the path of recoil. They give the command to fire once all of their checks have been done. This position is held by a Staff Sergeant. I have had insane firing times myself. From radar detecting rocket fire to the time that rounds were impacting on the point of origin was around 45 seconds. All of that includes a massive process beginning with radar establishing the point of origin (POO) ,to verifying no aviation elements are present in the path of flight, to ensuring the rounds will not produce collateral damage, to calculating the firing data with the AFATDS computer, to double checking it with a map and range deflection protractor, to establishing an azimuth of lay and relaying it to the guns to shift to, to the guns receiving the firing data, manually cranking the cannon tube by way of handwheels, loading the gun and shooting. I do love it when speed and precision are pushed to their absolute limits and these pit crews definitely deserve some respect because I know it’s not easy at all. A lot of work goes into it.

It's so synchronized it's beautiful.

Can you imagine if government was this efficient!

My dad does his tractor in much less time alone!

Fascinating! Very well done video!

Great breakdown, very informative, and interesting. Thank you!

Ferrari just beat them in the 2018 Brasilian Grand Prix! 1.9s

I don't know how you make it, but no matter how long are your videos I always enjoy them and find the content super interesting. That said, I do think that even when a lot of thigs are happening, +20min to explain a 2s pit stop was a bit too much...

Loved this! Fascinating

I agree. This video is much more interesting than the race itself. Great video.

no refuelling?

And you need 20 mins to talking this 2 seconds

Really enjoyed it 💥👍

thanks, I've always wondered. You did a bang up job explaining

Enjoyed your video. Explained so simply and in so much detail

These pit crew people are absolutely amazing at their discipline

Fascinating!!! Thanks!!!

Wonderful job from these guys and excellent video! 👍🍀

Thanks for bringing this informative video.

Very informative. Thanks for this schooling.

Incredible analysis. Thank you.

Excellent description. Thank you.