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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxER7KGzFZs
The Indy 500 is coming on Sunday, and the Friday before as part of "Carb Day" they hold a Pit Stop competition between various teams. It's a fun way to celebrate the crews that make the drivers' performance possible.
This year's competition will be streamed at 2:30PM Eastern on Peacock.
Before you interject, yes, current F1 pit stops are faster, now that they no longer refuel. In 2009 when they still fueled, pit stops were about this speed.
burpwind
They aren't fuelling anything here. He's just waving the hose at the car.
UNHchabo
Right, but if Indycar got rid of refuelling entirely they could consider a different system for the tires. As-is there's no real motivation to find a faster system since most pit stops in the actual races will be limited by the fueller, not the tire changers.
rchcopper
But in F1 there are more people. There's an extra wheel man per corner at least.
UNHchabo
Yep, but in both Indycar and in pre-2010 F1, the fuel is always the limiting factor unless someone made a mistake, or the rare stop that you don't need/want a full fuel load.
For Indycar's races at Iowa Speedway, the tire degradation is so high that they almost always come in well before they've run out of fuel, so the tire changers are the limiting factor on their stops at that track. For basically everything else they want a full load of fuel.