Red Bull zero gravity pit stop: F1 team's mind-boggling performance creates history

Red Bull recently registered victory at Brazilian Grand Prix with Max Verstappen taking chequered flag in incident-packed race last weekend. team’s mechanics also made headlines for officially completing Formula 1’s fastest ever pit stop, changing Max Verstappen’s tyres in a 1.82s.

Following ir record-breaking performance, team have released a video where y have taken ir pit stop skills to new heights.

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Red Bull zero gravity pit stop

A part of team’s mechanics completed world’s first zero-gravity pit stop using team's first-ever F1 car, RB1 from 2005. crew performed task with help of Russian ncy Roscomos, and aboard an Ilyushin Il-76 MDK cosmonaut training plane.

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According to a release from Red Bull Over course of a week, pit crew members took a crash course in cosmonaut training in preparation for multiple Zero-G flights in plane's fusel along with F1 car and a 10-strong film crew. Each flight consisted of a series of parabolas, with aircraft climbing at a 45-degree angle, n falling in a ballistic arc, to produce a period of weightlessness of around 22 seconds before next climb.

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Speaking about experience Red Bull mechanic Paul Knight said, " first parabola team did was really quite strange. re was sensation while going up or down. Climbing at 2G, with twice your rmal body weight, feels like being planted into ground and you struggle to move. n that sensation reverses when you go over top and into freefall." He also said that experience was amazing.

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