McLaren breaks the record for fastest Formula 1 pit stop! Daniel Ricciardo’s pit stop didn’t even last two seconds

The fastest pit stop in Formula 1 history! The McLaren Racing team recorded just that feat in the Mexican Grand Prix, when Daniel Ricciardo’s pit stop lasted less than two seconds. The British team from Woking thus broke Red Bull’s record.

Australian Ricciardo finished the Mexican Grand Prix in seventh place. The McLaren driver took 44 laps on the medium compound for the softest tyre specification marked in red.

And it was during this pit stop that he broke the McLaren Racing Formula One record for fastest pit stop. Ricciardo’s pit stop took less than two seconds, just 1.98 seconds to be precise.

Not only did McLaren break the aforementioned record, but for the first time in the 18-inch tyre era, they got a pit stop time of two seconds.

The fastest pit stop was held by the Red Bull Racing team, whose mechanics had already managed to change Sergio Pérez’s tyres earlier this season in a time of 2.09 seconds.

But McLaren also had the second fastest pit stop in Mexico. Ricciardo’s teammate Lando Norris took 2.29 seconds to change tyres. His McLaren stop came on lap 31.

Third place went to Ferrari – Charles Leclerc’s pit stop time was 2.34 seconds.

Remarkably, Red Bull and McLaren are first and second respectively in the 2022 DHL Fastest Pit Stop rankings, in which teams score points on the same basis as in the official Constructors’ Cup.

Red Bull is therefore the leader of the standings with 501 points ahead of second-placed McLaren, which has collected 384 points so far. However, there is a big gap between second and third place. The number three position is held by Scuderia Ferrari with 227 points.

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