What an amazing thing to witness! The Red Bull team needed a new challenge after performing three world record-breaking pit stops this season – and they found it at 33,000 feet, onboard an Ilyushin Il-76 MDK cosmonaut training plane. They 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 by completing a pit stop in zero gravity!
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F1 Pit Stop Feature by Williams F1 Team – Part 2 – Wheel Gun
Joseph Haugh, member of the Williams F1 Team pit crew, talking about the role of a wheel gun man in an F1 pit stop. Practising 60 pit stops every race weekend, there’s no time for nerves and no time for errors …