Not my best chart but... what can you do with a 60+ seconds pit stop? Don't blame me. Blame Russell for this monstrosity.

Formula 1 pit crew mechanic is one of the most demanding jobs in motorsports. Working under extreme pressure and with little room for error, these mechanics are at times the difference between a good and a bad result for a given driver. Because of this, I will continue this series of posts showing their performance week after week and recognizing their efforts.

For now, I came up with the simple idea of adding a plot to visualize the pit stops that happened during the race. The chart itself is self-explanatory, but just in case, let’s see what information it has:

1. The x-axis has each team that participated during the race.
2. The y-axis has the total number of seconds.
3. The bars are divided and stacked based on each pit stop for each team.
4. The big numbers at the top show the average pit stop time for each team.
5. The small numbers within each section of a bar represent the time for that particular stop.
   1. The number inside the parenthesis shows the lap when that pit stop was made.
6. The driver number within each section of a bar is just for looks ;)

Final remarks

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