Formula 1 Pit Stop – Blurred Motion | Full-Color Wall Art Print

Description

An F1 pit stop is over before a spectator has finished turning their head, and this full-colour poster keeps the part of it the eye never actually catches: a red car dragged through the lane as pure motion, the driver just visible inside it.

Everything about the modern stop is designed against the clock. The car is released on a light rather than a hand signal, the wheel guns run in both directions, and the crew stands in marked positions before the car appears. The whole choreography now takes about two seconds, which is roughly the time it takes to read this sentence.

The F1 pit stop, at the speed you never see it

Colour is doing the work here, so this wants a wall that is not competing. A plain painted surface, a garage, a games room or a home office. It is also the piece to choose if a group of black-and-white racing prints has gone flat and needs one frame that supplies all the saturation.

Two seconds, decomposed

The record has fallen repeatedly as crews have optimised release procedure and wheel gun design, and the current benchmark sits under two seconds from the car stopping to the car moving. The mechanics of how that became possible are set out at Wikipedia.

Hang it with

Three that sit well beside it: vintage F1 pit crew poster, vintage F1 pit lane kiss poster, Pirelli racing tires wall art, or browse the whole Formula 1 poster collection.

Printed and shipped by Montclair

Every Montclair poster is made to order, so nothing is stocked and nothing is ever out of stock. Yours is printed with archival pigment inks rather than dye, as a giclee at 300 dpi on 200 gsm (80 lb) archival matte paper, FSC-certified or equivalent, with a smooth, uncoated, non-reflective surface at 0.26 mm (10.3 mils). It goes on the press within 72 hours. Delivery is tracked and free worldwide, typically 8 to 13 days, with shipping already inside the price. Unframed posters ship rolled in a rigid tube. Framing is available from 27×35 cm to 70×100 cm in solid wood, assembled by hand with hanging hardware fitted to the back.