Stint

A stint is one continuous run of laps between pit stops, and it is the unit endurance strategy is actually planned in. A stint's length is set by the car's energy allocation or tank, so races are conceived as a sequence of stints with decisions layered on top: which driver takes which stints, and which stints reuse tyres.

Reading stint data tells you more about race pace than any single lap: average stint pace, degradation across a stint and consistency between drivers are where races are won. Our event pages break every race into its stints for exactly that reason.