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 USGP was as follows. Also, since there were a lot of pit stops this time, we omitted the lower ranks.
Table 1 Box performance
While the top contenders seem slightly different from the usual, Leclerc’s performance isn’t much of a surprise, given that he has occasionally demonstrated excellence since the latter half of last year.
Tsunoda consistently exhibits his usual stability, finishing two of his three pit stops within top-tier times. Ever since our website started analyzing pit stop performance, Tsunoda has consistently been among the elite in this area. His final pit stop was a close call, narrowly emerging ahead of Albon. If the AlphaTauri team had a grasp on his box performance, it could have relieved the mechanics of some pressure.
Writer: Takumi