Over the last three years, the Williams Martini Racing F1 team has shaved over a second off its pitstop time, going from worst to best, so much so that it recently clocked in at 1.92, the fastest in 2016.
Yet, how did the team drastically cut its pit time down?
It started by recently hiring human performance specialist Gemma Fisher and combining her insight with new biometric technology from Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft who Williams F1 began working with in 2014. According to Claire Williams, Deputy Team Principal and Commercial Director, the last 18 months have been key as Williams invests in “new technologies that will help keep us at the cutting edge of motorsport and advanced engineering.