@@jackorta1924 yes I do get it its from Modern Warfare during the tutorial but I made the joke to imply that its funny cause it takes them a lot longer to change to the secondary car than refueling and just changing the wheels like the other races
FE was so ridiculous to call that switching of cars a pit stop. I thought they would at least change out battery packs. Just like in the real world battery powered racing cars have very limited range. Basically around the town grocery getters.
We switched to single lugs this year and I know why we did(for the new big ass aluminum wheel) but they suck ass. They are constantly getting stuck. I don’t think this is ever a problem in F1 but they have million dollar fucking lugs. Indycar has not had problems(that I’ve seen) so I don’t know what nascar is doing wrong but they need to fix it. You should watch a race. It’s amazing this year
@@connorbingel7134 yeah I personally liked 5 lugs more but if they are committing to the switch they better change something. I mean last week at Sonoma bad pit stops ruined so many peoples races. It’s too much, I’d rather races be decided by strategy and driver skill, not who has the least bad pit stops. Other than that racing has been real good this season the best it’s been in a hot minute
I'd say the F1 and Nascar pitstops are the most spectacular. Having to unscrew all the lugnuts makes Nascar stops pretty good to watch too, but I don't think anything really beats the synchronicity of a well-timed F1 pitstop.
@Jarett Harris it's definitely really impressive, but it kind of feels like artificial limiting by having such a small pit crew in comparison. To me the efficiency is what's spectacular about it: having a pit stop in under 2 seconds from stopping to going is what makes it awesome.
@@TheBestCommenterEVER I think NASCAR limits the number of people because pit stops are dangerous. The less people you have milling about in the pitlane, the less risk you run at hurting them (and less people = less people to fuck something up, too).
These people could steal the hell out of some wheels. Imagine you’re walking away from your car, look back to lock it, and it’s already on cinderblocks
@@KORR Yes, they have several. You can see he starts peeling from a white tab and the windshield still has some on it. The tabs also alternate sides, so they only peel one layer at the time.
@Proxima im pretty sure he has another task apart from just cleaning the windshield, he's probably a mechanic in the team much like the guys who hold the red light in f1
While doing research for a paper in college, I came across an article in some medical journal about how delivery rooms in hospitals could be made more efficient by modeling the procedures after NASCAR pit stops. I'm gonna hafta dig that up again.
Saw an interview with Claire Williams, previous Williams F1 team principle in an interview saying they partnered with hospitals to share similar procedures to make them more efficient! Very cool things like this can translate in the medical environment
cant agree more. I wish the series where you pit IE nascar etc, would start doing team points stop rewarding just the driver. I think its bs a driver carries all the "team" points. when its his crew and so much more that does most of the work. I not saying the drivers dont help but there is so much that goes on behind the scenes to the pit crews, the crew chiefs, its a TEAM effort now. I think their scoring system should reflect that
@@jbhaltjbhalt8397 he was busy .. he was a very honest mechanic and as such had a lot of customers so yes and no it took for ever to get an appointment then it was like a day lol
@@killthahippie tbh i wouldnt wait that long, i would have ripped off my belt and replaced it and i wouldnt care if anything happened to the pistons or the valves cuz i really dont have any patience XD
@@killthahippie yeah I spent almost 2 weeks on my Miata timing belt job, mostly waiting on parts to come in. Then my clutch went out and I spent a month on that job, again just waiting on me to order the parts and then get it done. I have another vehicle so I wasn't in any big hurry, plus it allowed me to take it apart first and see what parts it needed, as opposed to ordering parts ahead of time and hoping I had what I needed.
Formula E rule change for a future year: No changing cars during pit stops. You have to recharge the battery to 100 percent before resuming racing. This results in a 6 hour intermission mid race.
@ill speedylaunch For example only a certain number of people may be across the white line / wall while the car is there, and only then they may actually cross it.
@ill speedylaunch F1 pit crews are more than twice as large as NASCAR, (14+ vs 6). NASCAR wheel are required to have 5 lug nuts instead of the 1 large one used in other motor sports, fuel is not pumped but gravity fed via a can, only 1 jack is permitted so the jackman has to carry the thing to the other side of the car. Furthermore NASCAR tends to be more heavy handed regarding pit lane penalties than F1 leading to crews being a bit more careful to avoid having to do a passthrough over a violation.
@@vinikampferherzbarros27 Indeed, once they've introduced the old school Rainbow track from the Nintendo 64 Mario Kart game, then perfection has been achieved!
@@vogavation No intense waiting? We don’t need bullshit penalties to cause drama, we need actual action thats makes it fun, not penalties. Thats why NASCAR has 5-6 lugs (i forgor 💀)
4:30 I love the idea of just sticking on a plastic sheet on the windshield and peeling it off during the stop to remove dirt instead of cleaning it by hand Who ever thought of that deserves a pat on the back
I'm waiting for the day when F1 Redbull pit crew break the 1 second barrier. Like Verstappen comes in and out in 0.9 seconds, Mercedes tries it but somehow ends with Lewis going out with different compound tires and Toto just shaking his head in disbelief.
While the drivers get the most glory, we should not forget about the sheer dedication and hard work of the mechanics and pit crews working in the Motorsport that often go unnoticed. Hats down to them.
And volunteers that support and enable amateur motorsports. Most racing isn't televised and has no purse. It's these series that develop the talent for the pro leagues both in the car and working around the track.
@Nob the Knave the noise is half of what makes it exciting it's like football/soccer/whatever sport without a crowd to cheer - you just hear people punting balls and shit
Yeah and they're getting even faster. Both of those stops were by mid pack teams back in 2012 or 11. Currently top teams are doing 4 tires and fuel in around 11 seconds flat.
FORMULA E "For Safety, there is a minimum required time for pit stops" In this video when the car leaves the pits: Almost causes an accident when facing another!!! 😲🤔
No, that wasn't even remotely close to causing an accident. Look how close they drive to each other when they're going 4-5 times faster. He had tons of room leaving the pits.
@@THELANKANCOMRADE hahaha! Electric is gay!! Hahaha guys we're so funny because we hate on electric! *Proceed to aggressively make out and jerk each other off*
If there is one thing I love about Nascar above all else, it is that those cars are the loudest. Indy has a high pitch whine, f1 has a slightly higher whine, and Nascar blows out your eardrums with a rumble, and numb your butt while doing so.
Us: that's cool. The guy: this is the closest thing I to be a deck officer* in a carrier 😔 * I don't know the rank, but I'm talking about those dudes who make the same sign in the opening of Top Gun.
Imagine the Formula-E (electric btw.) would involve the cars stopping in the pit, then getting out a wall charger and connect it to the car via mini-USB port and wait :D _"Ok boys nice and fast pitstop, now we wait about 41 hours and we're good to go. Who wants some lunch?"_
Apart from your naive depiction 41 Hours would probably not even get you 10% charge on a USB port. Maybe on a 3.1 power port ... Engineering explained has a great video where explains some things about the Formula E - how they work and why they are done like they are. I recommedn checking it out.
uTukan Image what a hitter I am on parties ... X-) not. I just got a little butthurt because I felt like he was making fun of electric drives :/ Kinda my fault I guess.
In WRC, mechanics only have 15 minutes between stages to fix whatever damage the car endured during the race. In that time they have to fix bodywork, swap engines and drive trains, ... . If a car suffers damage during the race preventing them to continue, the driver and co-pilot have to fix it themselves or forfeit.
Cinnamon crunch If you bring in 4 new tyres already mounted to 4 new wheels and don't care about your old wheel/tyres it could be done in 3 minutes. Including safely putting car on lift and lifting it up. They have the tools and capabilities.
+Kartracer6 not really, everything is so organized, precise, and quick that it's probably the opposite. I can really only think of one instance of a mechanic getting injured in pit lane in the few years I've been watching
yeah it is literally a windshield size peel away that you see used in Motocross and open cockpit races... its just quicker that that guy wiping away for a good 40 seconds
Tyler, that's probably because most of those pit stops are way under 40 seconds! However, they do wash the windows in NASCAR halfway through the race. However, if really pressed for time, the guy with the wiper blade only does the driver's side.
Seeing how they optimized the LMP2 stop around the quirks of the regulations was interesting. Only 2 _out_ and working on the car, but they're constantly swapping in and out who those two people are as the stuff being worked on changes.
Imagine RU-vid videos are like NASCAR lugnuts, strewn all over the ground without a care.. then you step on one and almost trip over. That's the RU-vid algorithm recommending you watch a video
+letzsee9 Its actually kinda cool to see the training they go through for some of the bigger teams..lpus when everyone comes down pit road the whole battle to get the fastest is amazing to see in real life
+F1Fan897 lol it's a perfect example of the term "controlled chaos" the training they do is crazy to be on point and get so much done with a small crew that quickly
Interestingly, NASCAR is where the choreographed fast pit stop originated. In 1962, a typical NASCAR pit stop for tires and fuel was about five minutes long. (Ned Jarrett once won a race at Darlington by using heavy truck tires that were so hard he was able to run the full 500 miles without changing tires, just stopping for fuel.) In 1963, though, the Wood Brothers team introduced choreographed, rehearsed pit stops that cut their stops down to somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 seconds, and proceeded too dominate the races they entered that year. Two years later, the Wood Brothers teamed with Lotus to bring Jimmy Clark to the Indy 500, using their choreographed pit stop procedures, resulting in similar levels of dominance and Clark winning the race. While I can't say for certain, I suspect that Clark was the one to bring the concept of the choreographed, rehearsed pit stop to F1, after seeing how much time it could save--even when F1 was only pitting for problems, having rehearsed tire changes would speed things up if you had a puncture, for example.
Yup. I also find it interesting that the big teams are so focused on pit times they recruit college athletes. There are a ton of fast, strong college athletes that never make it into pro sports.
None of those cars ran out of actual juice. FE has rules on energy consumption to even the playing field. So without explaining the details, those cars had to halt despite having actual battery left.
Can we give props to the man on the front passenger wheel at :24? He literally finishes completely as the other three are finishing putting on the new wheel
@@bendovrsenpai9582 The number of likes doesn't define wether a comment is good. That's like calling an independent film bad because it isn't Hollywood.
I like Formula E, just prove how silent a racing engine should be...! I came to watched 3 races so far, and just fall in love in the atmosphere the races made, and they sound futuristic as hell...!
