From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpit stopˈpit stop noun [countable] 1 DSOa time when a driver in a car race stops in the pits to get more petrol or have repairs done2 → make a pit stop
Examples from the Corpus
pit stop• But three factors suggest their stumbling Christmas represents a pit stop rather than the wheels coming off altogether.• Having reached Aulef and taken on water, that night was a pit stop.• The mistake was the result of an earlier pit stop in which his crew failed to fill his Chevrolet with enough gasoline.• Zanardi opened up a four-second gap over second-place Brian Herta, which Herta made up with a good pit stop.• McVeighty gambled on going the complete four laps on one tankful of petrol, while Bell made one pit stop. 