Looking at the tire replacement work of F1 "Red Bull Racing Team" from a mechanical point of view

I wait for the F1 machine that jumps into the pit with the speed limit full speed, exchanging 4 tires in no time and send it to the course againPit crewEven if you look at the goodness of your dreams many times, it is likely that you will not be thinking "wonderful!" Even looking at the crew view image captured by GoPro attached to the helmet of pit crew as a state of such work was as early work as I could not understand exactly what was going on.

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The place where the crew comes out from the pit and gets in place to prepare for tire change.


A pit crew arranged in the letter "Ko" when viewed from the top. The F1 machine which ran from the left stops in this space and the tire is exchanged in a blink of an eye.


Looking from the driver's perspective, it is like this.


The Red Bull F1 machine approaching. This time it seems that practice scenery of tire exchange is stored.


Jonathan Wheatley, team manager of the Red Bull Racing Team, said, "Tire replacement was part of the motor sports from the earliest stage.The important thing about the pit crew is that each one works in 2 seconds by working properly It is to understand that it can be sent out, "he talks about Pittruk's job.


Specialized staff is prepared for each work to enable quick tire change. Staff who just wears new front left tire ... ...


A special tool called a wheel gun, a specialized person who removes the mounting nut of the tire and tightens it again.


We also have a specialized staff with a board meaning "stop the front wheels here".


Red Bull pit crew is a group of 18 people in all.


The machine pits in. For quick work, it is also very important that not only the pit crew but the driver stop the machine perfectly in place.


Jack on the front wing, lift up the machine with a good guy. Although two jacks are used before and after the pit exchange, "air jack" which lifts the front with the force of air is used.


Leah is old-fashioned man power jack. If you look closely, you can see that the backup jack is stand by beside for the first jack trouble.


The wheel gun creates a "ballad" sound and instantly removes the wheel nut ... ...


The person who removes the tire, the person who installs it, replaces the tire with a new one in a moment by matching the timing.


Then we finished work by attaching "Barrela" and a nut this time.


For the front jack, the handlebar is designed to rotate large. It is a device to make it easier for the driver to straight out pit by getting the jacking crew aside aside.


A small traffic light in front of the driver. This is for displaying the timing of pit out in an easy-to-understand manner, which is also a device for realizing quick tire change. Incidentally, there are also crews responsible for switching only this signal.


With 18 crews and drivers fitting together, the driver quickly wore a new tire and the driver left the pit.


The tire change of F1 which does not stay in the eyes is also expressed as "to change to bullets", and the level of the pit stop in the first half of the 2 second range is a matter of course. Among them, the Williams team recorded in the European GP of the 8th round of Formula One Grand Prix 2016 season "1.92 seconds"Time is the fastest pit stop in the world at the time of article creation.

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