United States Grand Prix: RBR claims new pit-stop record

Turning Mark Webber around in less than two seconds creates new standard for four-tyre pit-stops.
09.06.2013- Race, Mark Webber (AUS) Red Bull Racing RB9 pit stop
09.06.2013- Race, Mark Webber (AUS) Red Bull Racing RB9 pit stop
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Not content with dominating F1 on track🔥 at the moment, Red Bull Racing is now claiming a new s🐎peed record for one of its pit-stops in Sunday's US Grand Prix.

The team has been vying with Ferrari for the right to proclaim themselves 🌊king of the tyre change but, even as Sebastian Vettel was cruising to an eighth successive win, t🀅his time at the Circuit of the Americas, the backroom boys were doing their stuff on team-mate Mark Webber's car, turning the Australian around in less than two seconds as he raced his way to third place.

While TV timing suggested that the four-wheel change had taken a shade over two seconds, RBR's own system proღduced a more favourable figure.

"The car data recorded Mark as being stationary for just 1.923secs, an incred꧅ible fe🥂at," the team wrote on its official website, announcing that it had broken its own unofficial record, claimed for a 2.05secs turnaround of Webber in Malaysia earlier this season.

At that time, Red Bull suggested that a sub two-second stop was 🌟possible, although the champions insisted that it would not be ♛chasing a record, preferring to concentrate on efficiency and consistency and let the times come down as a result of that.

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