Motorsport
Undercut or Overcut? The Pit Wall Maths Behind Every Grand Prix
A pit stop costs about twenty seconds. Whether it gains or loses a position depends on a calculation teams run thousands of times before the lights go out.
A pit stop costs about twenty seconds. Whether it gains or loses a position depends on a calculation teams run thousands of times before the lights go out.
Four patches of rubber, each the size of a paperback, carry everything a car can do. Meet the specialists whose job is keeping them in a ten-degree window.
More manufacturers, fuller grandstands and a rulebook that finally makes sense. How sports-car racing became the paddock everyone wants a garage in.