Red Bull may have set a new record for the fastest pit stop in Formula 1 history during the Brazilian Grand Prix, but the te🌊am has broken yet more ground with a pit stop at zero gravity.

“Drawing on the♉ help of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the Team took the 2005 RB1 car to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City and set🧔 about proving that the sky really is the only limit,” a release from Red Bull reads.

“Over the course of a week, pit crew members took a🧔 crash course in cosmonaut training in preparation for multiple Zero-G flights in the plane’s fuselage along with the F1 car and a 10-strong film crew. Ea🎉ch flight consisted of a series of parabolas, with the aircraft climbing at a 45° angle, then falling in a ballistic arc, to produce a period of weightlessness of around 22 seconds before the next climb.

“Even with optimum conditions, filming the pit stop was a difficult proposition. Car and equipment had to be carefully secured before and after each weightless period (because no one wants gravity returning when the car, the ty🌸res or the pit crew is a metre off the deck), reducing each filming session to a take around 15 seconds.”

“It pushed us harder than I thought it would,” said Support Team Chief Mechanic Joe Robinson. “You realise how much you rely on gravity, when you don’t have any! Something as straightforward as tightening a wheelnut becomes very difficult when the car is floating, and the only c🃏ontrol y🎐ou have is through the stiffness of your ankles, tucked into floor straps.

“It challenges you to think and operate in a different way – and that was brilliant. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and honestly, I could ha꧒ve stayed and done it all month. It was amazing.💛 I think it’s the coolest, most fun thing the Live Demo Team has ever done with a show car.”