1. Inside Front Tire Changer: Usually one of the mechanics, the tire changer takes the tire and air gun over the wall one lap before the pit stop and is on his knees when the car arrives at 50 mph.

“You don’t win a race on a pit stop,” said Rich Wolverson, head of race team operations at Red Bull, “but you lose a race by having a bad pit stop.” Red Bull was the fastest and most consistent ...

Hamlin's pit crew performed a blistering 8.3-second pit stop that won him the race off pit road and subsequently the race win.