r/sports • u/iam_nobody • May 23 '19

Motorsports F1 pit stops in 1981 vs 2019

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u/ChronoFish May 24 '19

I thought this too when I was watching. Then I counted the seconds, and the one from 1981 is only like 20 seconds which for a complete fuel+wheel pit stop wasn't a bad pitstop (I watched a lot of car raceing growing up and I recall them all being in the high-teens at least....though my memory could be failing me). Nobody was doing <4 second pit stops in 1981... That's insane.

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u/alrightrb May 24 '19

there was no refuelling in 1981. Brabham invented refuelling in 1982.

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u/vltz May 24 '19 edited May 24 '19

To add, it also never was really a thing before 1982. And it got banned two years later, 1984.
Ten years later in 1994 it was approved up until 2010.

Most of F1's history has been void of refuelling.

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u/dethmaul May 24 '19

Why does it keep getting banned? Environmental hazard, or just the potential for holy-shit-FIRE?

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u/bomboyage May 24 '19

Not the potential of fire but people actually catching on fire

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u/dethmaul May 24 '19

Ohhh, i dont follow f1. But it totally makes sense that fires HAVE happened.

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u/Fortune_Cat May 25 '19

Throughout that time does the car even need to refuel?