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It's fun to compare it with clips of tire changes in past F1 races. There's been a constant evolution in the tire change procedure/dance.


This is really old now (I think 2000s) but even the jacks they lift the car with doesn’t drop with gravity alone - that’s too slow. They have some mechanism that actively drops the jack, so they can pull it away faster.


At one point (oof, one article says 2010) re-fueling went out the window, that's a big time sink.


And it changes things completely for the tire changers. When there's re-fueling, there isn't really any stress on the tire changers. Without it, it's most often all on them.


Less fires too!




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