Although Ferrari endured a tough season in 2025, the Italian team established itself as the undisputed benchmark regarding pit lane performance. F1Technical’s senior writer Balazs Szabo analyses the Scuderia’s performance in the pit lane.
Ferrari may not have been in the fight for the 2025 Drivers’ Championship, but their pit lane performance remained one of their most potent strategic assets. Their ability to consistently deliver sub‑2.20‑second stops provided tactical flexibility, strengthened undercut potential, and compensated for moments when outright race pace was lacking.
However, despite this excellent performance in the pit lane, Ferrari dropped down to fourth place in the teams’ standings, having failed to match McLaren’s, Mercedes’ and Red Bull’s pace in the closing stages of the season.
Across the 24‑race calendar, Ferrari delivered the fastest pit stop on nine occasions and finished inside the top three an extraordinary 23 times.
This dominance allowed the team to secure the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award with 559 points, placing them well ahead of McLaren’s 410. The numbers reflect a team that not only achieved peak performance but sustained it with remarkable repeatability.
Season‑Long Performance: Fastest Stops by Race
Ferrari’s performance across the season demonstrated both peak execution and exceptional consistency. The Italian team recorded the lowest standard deviation in pit stop times across the grid.
In pit lane performance, consistency is often more valuable than outright speed, and Ferrari’s ability to minimise variance was a decisive competitive advantage. The importance of consistency was demonstrated by the championship-winning team, McLaren.
The quickest stop of the entire year was done by McLaren, who achieved a time of 1.91 seconds. McLaren also recorded two more stops under 1.95 seconds, giving them three of the top three fastest stops overall. However, McLaren made some crucial, race-deciding mistakes in the first and second third of the season.
Red Bull followed closely behind. They delivered three stops between 1.95 and 1.99 seconds, placing 4th, 5th, and 6th in the rankings. Their best time was 1.95 seconds, only 0.04 seconds slower than McLaren’s fastest. This small gap shows how tight the competition was at the top.
Ferrari appeared three times in the top ten, all with stops of 2.00 seconds. These stops ranked 7th, 8th, and 9th, showing that Ferrari was extremely consistent, even if they did not break the two‑second barrier as often as McLaren or Red Bull.
Williams completed the top ten with a 2.02‑second stop, which was only 0.11 seconds slower than McLaren’s best. This shows how close the entire field was — the difference between 1st and 10th place was just over a tenth of a second.
