Williams F1 says the training company founded by the retired 400-meter Olympic champion will "provide an intensive training program for the team's pit crew personnel as well as conducting an evaluation of the team's training regime." Shaving even a tiny amount of time off a stay in the pits can make a huge difference to a driver's race performance.

Johnson says he is "confident that the experience and biomechanics expertise ... (can) cut hundredths and even tenths of a second from their pit stop times." Michael Johnson Performance Inc. has already worked with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys and Major League Soccer's FC Dallas.