{"id":2952,"date":"2010-03-07T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2010-03-07T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T14:36:19","slug":"red-bull-eyes-sub-two-second-pitstops-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-eyes-sub-two-second-pitstops-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull eyes sub-two second pitstops in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">F1&#8217;s new race for lightening-fast tyre-only pitstops has stepped up another notch.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Observers marvelled earlier this winter when, after Williams admitted that sub-3 second stops would be commonplace in the wake of the refuelling ban, even quicker turnarounds were witnessed as teams practiced at the February tests.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has now told the Mirror newspaper that pitstops will in fact dip below 2 seconds in 2010, with the team&#8217;s unofficial record currently standing at 1.8s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have done sub-two second stops.\u00a0 They are absolutely lightning,&#8221; he said of the Milton Keynes-based team&#8217;s 18-man pit crew.<\/p>\n<p>Horner said one of the measures adopted by Red Bull to speed up tyre stops was to put its pit crew through an intense training programme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guys have trained like hell over the winter,&#8221; he explained.\u00a0 &#8220;They have all lost weight and got fitter in the process.\u00a0 The guys have been training in the gym at 12 and 4pm every day since November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve always been fast but now there&#8217;s been a lot more of a scientific approach to the whole issue,&#8221; added Horner.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s new race for lightening-fast tyre-only pitstops has stepped up another notch. \u00a0 Observers marvelled earlier this winter when, after Williams admitted that sub-3 second stops would be commonplace in the wake of the refuelling ban, even quicker turnarounds were witnessed as teams practiced at the February tests.<\/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":[3],"tags":[128,5262,129,860],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952"}],"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=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}