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F1 driver uses Big Ben to practise pit-stops

09/07/2010
In the run-up to the British Grand Prix on July 11, Red Bull’s racing pit crew and driver Mark Webber carried out a full pitstop in front of the Houses of Parliament in London.

As iconic clock Big Ben struck 6 am on July 9, the Red Bull pit team waited for the driver to come roaring up to the gates of the Palace of Westminster as part of a publicity stunt and a practice for the race at Silverstone.

The Red Bull team is curretly second in the constructor's championship to McLaren while in the driver's championship Mark Webber lies fourth. The team has said that the secret of its success is the idea that ‘slow is fast’, which relies heavily on deep breathing, slowing down the heartbeat of the engineers in the pit team and methodical thinking.

All of these are qualities that the engineers believe are enhanced by a new vest, made by Cyprus-based FIR-TEX, that they have started to wear this season. The vests use heat energy from the body to reflect far infrared radiation back to the wearer.

Since the banning of fuel changes in Formula 1 races, the crew are no longer granted the luxury of eight-second pit stops and now have to work to three seconds.


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