So the F1 season finishes this weekend!

It’s a tough year for all the teams, with so many race weekends, the staff work flat out.

Sebastian Vettel (pictured below talking to his pit crew) was again unstoppable in Austin and not only did he break another record with an eighth consecutive win, but Red Bull themselves set a new record, this time involving Mark Webber.

The Red Bull pit crew managed to achieve a sub two second pit stop, breaking their un-official record.

Red Bull posted a statement on their website stating that their car data recorder said that Mark was stationary for only 1.923 seconds!

That is a pretty fast time when you think about it.

The mechanics must get the car off the ground (you have a front jack man and a rear jack man), change four tyres, then get the car back on the ground.

The driver then has to make sure they make the perfect get-away, not creating too much wheel spin, or worse case, stalling!!

Before all of this happens, the mechanics would spend plenty of time back at the factory and across the race weekend, practising the pit stops over and over again, as well as practising all the front wing changes.

The driver must push as hard as possible on the “in” lap to the pits, slowing down in time for the pit lane speed gun and drive to their team’s pit box.

When the driver pulls in, they must stop on the “markers” which is where the mechanic’s hand meets the front tyre.

Not meeting the markers can mean the tyre changers need to move position to change the tyres, resulting in time loss.

There are three mechanics per wheel: one is responsible for the wheel gun, while one takes the tyre off and the other puts the new tyre on.

To get it just right, the mechanics do need to be reasonably fit, as it is a speedy process and the tyres and guns are not light (with the average weight of a tyre being around 15-20kg.

Combining all of the above and getting the pit-stop accurate and fast, like Red Bull achieved in Austin, just proves that it can be done under two seconds!!