Formula 1®
DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award presented to Mercedes-AMG Petronas
Key Takeaways
- Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport receives the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award for consistently achieving the fastest pit stops during the season
This year’s DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award went to Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, marking the first time the team has received the accolade. Presented since 2015, the award honors the outstanding behind-the-scenes team performances that play a key role in driver success. Pit stops require speed, cooperation and efficiency – attributes that are also crucial to DHL.
The pit-stop is a crucial moment of the race and can make the difference between winning and losing.
Ross Brawn
A new points system was introduced in 2017 for the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award, stimulating even keener competition between the teams on the racetrack and in the pit: The award does not just go to the team with the fastest pit stop, but to the team that most consistently achieves the fastest pit stops over the course of a given season – an achievement that has become an even greater challenge with the concurrent introduction of wider, heavier tires in Formula One.
Just like the points system for the driver and constructor championships, each team and each driver is evaluated on the basis of their respective fastest pit stop results in each of the races. The ten fastest pit stops are awarded points on a scale of one to 25: According to the new rules, the fastest pit stop receives 25 points, while the tenth fastest receives one. The overall winner was Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport gaining the highest number of points for the entire season, a total of 472 points. The best time in the individual ranking was achieved by Williams Martini Racing with a pit stop time of 2.02 seconds in the British Grand Prix.
“The pit-stop is a crucial moment of the race and can make the difference between winning and losing,” said Ross Brawn, Managing Director, Motorsports at Formula 1. “It’s not only a matter of how fast a crew can change the tyres each race, but also how consistent they are throughout the season. By winning the 2017 DHL Fastest Pit Stop, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team proved to be the most consistent and the best in class this season, so congratulations to them!”
DHL handles the “race behind the races”
“Formula 1 races demand exceptional teamwork and the utmost concentration from everyone involved as just fractions of a second can determine victory or defeat,” says Nour Suliman, CEO DHL Express Middle East and North Africa. “This passion is the pivotal link in our longstanding, successful partnership: We love what we do and we always want to deliver top performance.”
Formula 1 races demand exceptional teamwork and the utmost concentration from everyone involved.
Nour Suliman
At the 2017 FIA Formula 1 World Championship, 25 of the best race drivers in the world once again achieved outstanding results over the course of 20 races, held in just nine months across five continents. This tight schedule is the “race behind the races” for the experienced global motorsport specialists at DHL. Planning and implementation are orchestrated down to the last detail thanks in no small part to the team’s enormous dedication and expertise, ensuring that the behind-the-scenes racing world stays on the right track.
DHL is the official logistics partner of Formula One and, for more than 35 years, has been playing a key role in ensuring that the race cars, spare parts, marketing gear and hospitality equipment are delivered on time for the cars to take up their positions on the grid as the championship moves from one international circuit to the next – a process that entails the transport of approximately 2,000 metric tons of freight each year. In order to make this happen, DHL relies first and foremost on environmentally efficient multi-modal transport solutions via land and ocean freight. The logistics partnership also provides the company with excellent opportunities to further develop special logistics solutions that benefit customers in affiliated motorsport segments, the automotive industry and other sectors further afield.
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