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During the 2016 Formula 1 season, it's not unusual for pit-stops to hover somewhere around the three-second mark. In rare instances, such as for the Williams F1 team at the 2016 European Grand Prix, the feat has amazingly been accomplished in less than two ticks of the clock.Wrap your mind around that idea for a moment. It will likely take you as long to digest the concept, and it certainly took longer to type out this sentence, than the amount of time required for a 15-20 member pit-crew to pounce on a stopping race car, lift it off the ground, swap four wheels and tires, and then drop it down to be sent on its way. Two seconds! 1 Quality Is Everyone's Responsibility Of course, this larger performance represents a complex chain of lesser events, mapped out and practiced relentlessly by highly-paid, full-time professionals-pit-crews whose sole job is to save their teams and drivers precious seconds that could result in a change in position, and in some cases even a victory.