McClaren F1 Offers Beer For 3-Second Pit Stops

OK so I admit I’ll take any opportunity I can to combine Auto Racing & beer (just in writing)….so some fun news coming out of McClaren’s Formula 1 team today about motivating their pit crew.  This from Yahoo sports:

McLaren‘s sporting director Sam Michael has taken a refreshing approach to his Formula One team’s pitstop problems by promising that the beers will be on him once the crew average three seconds a stop.

Pitstops have troubled the British Formula One team all season and 2008 champion Lewis Hamilton suffered some glitches again in his two stops on the way to winning in Canada on Sunday.

With no time-consuming refuelling allowed during the race any more, mechanics aim to complete a tyre change in under three seconds while a driver in Canada can be in and out of the pit lane in 21 seconds under a 60kph limit.

The challenge is for them to beat three seconds, and they’ve got a massive motivation because I’ve already offered the whole team a round of beers the moment they average a three second pitstop," he smiled.