{"id":16556,"date":"2012-08-27T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16556"},"modified":"2012-08-27T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T10:40:08","slug":"ferrari-fastest-pit-crew-in-2012-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-fastest-pit-crew-in-2012-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari fastest pit crew in 2012 &#8211; analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari, whose Fernando Alonso is leading the world championship, is also the team with the fastest pit crew so far in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012\/championship-f1-2012\/R12Eur-F1\/R12Eur-F1-06.jpg\" alt=\"R12Eur-F1-06\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport has found that the Italian squad&#8217;s tyre-changing crew is on average a touch under two tenths faster than reigning champions Red Bull per pitstop.<\/p>\n<p>It is a remarkable turnaround for Maranello based Ferrari, who were reportedly in the pitstop &#8220;midfield&#8221; in the same mid-season ranking a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Mercedes&#8217; was the fastest pit crew, but now the Brackley based squad is just fourth, more than three tenths slower than Ferrari and also behind Force India.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren, whose 2012 crew is now orchestrated by Williams&#8217; former technical director Sam Michael, have the outright record for the fastest individual stop of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>But, overall, the British team is behind Toro Rosso in sixth place, on average more than seven tenths slower than the Ferrari crew.<\/p>\n<p>And, indicating that smaller budgets even slow teams down in the pits, Caterham&#8217;s pitstops are on average 1.75 seconds slower than Red Bull, while Marussia (2.28s) and HRT (3.28) bring up the rear.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari, whose Fernando Alonso is leading the world championship, is also the team with the fastest pit crew so far in 2012. Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport has found that the Italian squad&#8217;s tyre-changing crew is on average a touch under two tenths faster than reigning champions Red Bull per pitstop. It is a remarkable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,4017,149,93,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16557,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions\/16557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}