The Oracle Red Bull Racing pit crew have turned the lights out on the 2023 season with another incredible feat by completing the sports’ first ever pitstop in total darkness!
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The First EVER Pit Stop In Complete Darkness!
Can the Oracle Red Bull Racing pit crew complete a pit stop in pitch black conditions?
A pit stop is a symphony of precision – it’s over almost as quickly as you can say “box box” and even mere mortals can simply hear when it’s a good one. With countless hours of practice, Oracle Red Bull Racing’s pit crew know how to complete the perfect pit stop by now, and to prove it we’ve won the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award for the last six years.
Even away from track we’ve found ourselves completing pit stops in some pretty wild places, from London’s Parliament Square to literal zero gravity. What we’re saying is that we’re pretty darn good at pit stops by now, so how do you challenge a team that’s already at the top of their game?
Well, what if you took “lights out” a bit more literally? One RB14, eighteen pit crew members, zero lights – that’s right, we’re doing a Pitch Black Pit Stop.
The Pitch Black Pit Stop was a challenge we could never see coming our way as a Race Team, but in typical Red Bull fashion, we have come to expect the unexpected