The stability of the car is ensured by the four yellow members of the pit crew team.

Let’s take another look at exactly how this looks when completed in under 2-seconds: Greens remove the old tyre once blue has loosened it before orange comes in with the new tyre before blue once again is called upon to finally tighten the new wheel before the race. Blue’s are responsible for the wheel gun and to loosen the old tyre and tighten the new one. The blue, green and orange team members are all focussed on one overall mission: changing their tyre as quickly and efficiently as possible. There are a number of Lean principles that come into play when executing the perfect pit stop – but before we dive into that, let’s take a moment to look briefly at the roles of those in an F1 pit crew: “If only one of the 20-something of those people-including the driver-are off by a few centimeters, a whole race and weeks of work can be destroyed.” The hard work of these exceptional individuals can easily go unnoticed, but as Formula One themselves point out: Everybody involved knows the goal and they are all engaged and actively working towards it.

Fundamentally, the key to this exceptional performance is teamwork.

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