In today’s F1, the pit stop stationary time is published on the DHL official website, and the pit lane passing time is also recorded and published on the F1 official website.
DHL official pit stop stationary time
Therefore, on this site, we will calculate
(Pit lane passing time) – (Stationary time)
and try to quantify the performance of the drivers’ stops and starts in the pit boxes. I define this time as “box performance” on this site.
The box performance of the Japanese GP was as follows. Also, since there were a lot of pit stops this time, we omitted the lower ranks.
Table 1 Box performance
Hulkenberg, who has been in very good shape recently, marked the top time again. It was his third time, following Belgium and Italy. He has also been consistently in the top positions in other GPs, and his stop on lap 37 this time was also very excellent. He can be said to be the driver who has shown the most outstanding performance in this field recently.
The AlphaTauri drivers came in second. Tsunoda is well-known as a specialist in this field since last year, but it was the first time for Lawson to show his brilliance in this field in his fourth race in F1. Did he learn some tricks from his teammate? We want to pay attention to his performance in the next races and beyond.
Also, Piastri has started to mark top times recently, and expectations are high for the future.
Writer: Takumi