This Is The World's Fastest Pit Stop: Four Tires In 2.3 Seconds

At the German Grand Prix yesterday, McLaren pulled off the fastest pit stop in competition history, swapping the four tires on Jenson Button's car in just 2.31 seconds. Button didn't lose a single place on the grid.

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Jenson Button Rocks Heat Wave Budapest With Aural Candy

McLaren driver Jenson Button came to Budapest on Tuesday to show what it’s like to do 150 MPH on a downtown avenue. What must be a PR burden for a modern F1 driver is an aural delight for an entire city, sweltering in the early spring heat. The McLaren was loud in a rather cosmic way.

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Jenson Button and Mika Häkkinen do endless burnouts in scotch ad

This has got to be the weirdest and most awesome ad for scotch ever filmed. Johnnie Walker have signed up Jenson Button and Mika Häkkinen for an anti-drink-and-drive spot where they take big maroon C63 AMG’s and donut their initials into the asphalt. There is smoke. Lots of smoke. God I miss Mika Häkkinen.

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The 2011 Formula One season’s lopsided awesomeness in one chart

Here’s the points chart for the recently concluded Formula One season, total points plotted against Grands Prix. If you’ll ignore the uncanny performance of a certain blond German kid, it was a pretty close fight…for second place.

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The 2011 Italian Grand Prix in Crayola

It’s time to say goodbye to the European season of Formula One at Monza, the track where racing looks like racing footage on stimulants. It was everyone’s last chance to stop the Red Bulls. But tell that to Sebastian Vettel, not about to be stopped. Warning: spoilers.

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