The Pit Stop

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The Pit Stop
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The Pit Stop
Overall Information
No. of Episodes	10 (S8) 8 (AS2) 13 (S9) 8 (AS3) 13 (S10) 10 (AS4) 13 (S11) 13 (S12) 8 (AS5) 10 (CDR1) 15 (S13) 12 (AS6) 15 (S14) 12 (AS7) 14 (S15) 12 (AS8) TBA (S16)
Season Information
Host	Kingsley (S8) Raja (AS2, S9, S10) Alaska (AS3) Trixie Mattel (AS4, CDR1, S13, AS6, S16) Manila Luzon (S11) Bob the Drag Queen (S12, AS5, AS7) Monét X Change (S14) Bianca Del Rio (S15, AS8)

The Pit Stop is the official aftershow for RuPaul's Drag Race (Seasons 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16), RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (Seasons 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8), and Canada's Drag Race (Season 1). The show involves two people, a host and a guest (usually two previous competitors from Drag Race) in which they discuss the events of the episode. The name of the show is a pun on the pit area used during the car race where drivers can go and get refuelled, new tires, etc. during the race.

Season 8's Pit Stop was hosted by YouTuber Kingsley, All Stars 2, Season 9 and Season 10's by Raja, All Stars 3's by Alaska, All Stars 4, Canada's Drag Race, Season 13, All Stars 6, and Season 16's by Trixie Mattel, Season 11's (and All Stars 4's finale) by Manila Luzon, Season 12 and All Stars 5 and 7's (and Season 9 and 10's finales) by Bob The Drag Queen, Season 14's by Monét X Change and Season 15 and All Stars 8's by Bianca Del Rio. The first three seasons aired on Logo's YouTube channel before switching to VH1's YouTube channel starting with All Stars 3.

Pit Stop Hosts

Kingsley
Season 8

Raja
All Stars 2
Season 9
Season 10

Alaska
All Stars 3

Trixie Mattel
All Stars 4
Canada Season 1
Season 13
All Stars 6
Season 16

Manila Luzon
Season 11

Bob The Drag Queen
Season 12
All Stars 5
All Stars 7

Monét X Change
Season 14

Bianca Del Rio
Season 15
All Stars 8

Appearances Timeline

NOTE: Years marked in BOLD are years where the queen hosted The Pit Stop

Queen	Photo	Season(s)	Role	Number of Appearances
				Total #	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Kingsley			Host	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Raja		Season 3	Host	37	9	12	12	1	1	1	0	1	0
		All Stars 7
Alaska		Season 5	Host	14	1	1	8	1	1	0	1	1	0
		All Stars 2
Trixie Mattel		Season 7	Host	63	2	0	3	6	10	27	0	0	15
		All Stars 3
Manila Luzon		Season 3	Host	20	0	1	2	14	0	1	1	1	0
		All Stars 1
		All Stars 4
Bob The Drag Queen		Season 8	Host	39	0	2	1	0	21	2	13	0	0
Monét X Change		Season 10	Host	19	0	0	0	0	2	1	15	1	0
		All Stars 4
		All Stars 7
Bianca Del Rio		Season 6	Host	30	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	26	0
Detox		Season 5	Guest	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
		All Stars 2
Ginger Minj		Season 7	Guest	4	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 2
		All Stars 6
Delta Work		Season 3	Guest	7	2	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0
Morgan McMichaels		Season 2	Guest	5	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 3
Laganja Estranja		Season 6	Guest	9	2	1	2	1	0	1	1	1	0
Shannel		Season 1	Guest	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 1
Victoria Parker		Season 1	Guest	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cynthia Lee Fontaine		Season 8	Guest	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Season 9
Mariah Paris Balenciaga		Season 3	Guest	5	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0
		All Stars 5
Courtney Act		Season 6	Guest	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pandora Boxx		Season 2	Guest	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 1
		All Stars 6
Katya		Season 7	Guest	6	0	1	0	1	1	1	2	0	0
		All Stars 2
Gia Gunn		Season 6	Guest	3	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
		The Switch Season 2
		All Stars 4
Violet Chachki		Season 7	Guest	4	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
Raven		Season 2	Guest	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 1
Ongina		Season 1	Guest	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 5
Luis Alvarez			Guest	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jaidynn Diore Fierce		Season 7	Guest	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alexis Michelle		Season 9	Guest	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 8
Adore Delano		Season 6	Guest	4	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0
		All Stars 2
Eureka!		Season 9	Guest	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0
		Season 10
		All Stars 6
Chad Michaels		Season 4	Guest	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 1
Valentina		Season 9	Guest	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
		All Stars 4
		México Host
Kimora Blac		Season 9	Guest	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Farrah Moan		Season 9	Guest	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 4
Kylie Sonique Love		Season 2	Guest	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
		All Stars 6
Kim Chi		Season 8	Guest	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Mayhem Miller		Season 10	Guest	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 5
		UK vs The World 2
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo		Season 10	Guest	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
		Season 11
Jiggly Caliente		Season 4	Guest	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 6
		Philippines Judge
Jinkx Monsoon		Season 5	Guest	4	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0
		All Stars 7
Derrick Barry		Season 8	Guest	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
		All Stars 5
Sasha Velour		Season 9	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Peppermint		Season 9	Guest	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0
Thorgy Thor		Season 8	Guest	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
		All Stars 3
Acid Betty		Season 8	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Yuhua Hamasaki		Season 10	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Aja		Season 9	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 3
Jujubee		Season 2	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 1
		All Stars 5
		UK vs The World 1
Miz Cracker		Season 10	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 5
Dusty Ray Bottoms		Season 10	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Trinity The Tuck		Season 9	Guest	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
		All Stars 4
		All Stars 7
The Vivienne		UK Season 1	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 7
Jaida Essence Hall		Season 12	Guest	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1
		All Stars 7
Heidi N Closet		Season 12	Guest	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
		All Stars 8
Laila McQueen		Season 8	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Mo Heart		Season 10	Guest	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
		All Stars 4
		UK vs The World 1
Alyssa Edwards		Season 5	Guest	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
		All Stars 2
Tatianna		Season 2	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
		All Stars 2
Brooke Lynn Hytes		Season 11	Guest	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
		Canada Host
Shea Couleé		Season 9	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
		All Stars 5
		All Stars 7
Latrice Royale		Season 4	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
		All Stars 1
		All Stars 4
Priyanka		Canada Season 1	Guest	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Rock M. Sakura		Season 12	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Jan		Season 12	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
		All Stars 6
Nicky Doll		Season 12	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
		France Host
BenDeLaCreme		Season 6	Guest	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
		All Stars 3
Gigi Goode		Season 12	Guest	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Kennedy Davenport		Season 7	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
		All Stars 3
Mrs. Kasha Davis		Season 7	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
		All Stars 8
Denali		Season 13	Guest	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Nicole Byer			Guest	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Symone		Season 13	Guest	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Gottmik		Season 13	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Silky Nutmeg Ganache		Season 11	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
		All Stars 6
		Canada vs The World 1
Pangina Heals		Thailand Judge	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
		UK vs The World 1
A'keria C. Davenport		Season 11	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
		All Stars 6
Naomi Smalls		Season 8	Guest	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
		All Stars 4
Naysha Lopez		Season 8	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
		All Stars 8
Willow Pill		Season 14	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Joel Kim Booster			Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Scarlet Envy		Season 11	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
		All Stars 6
		UK vs The World 2
Kandy Muse		Season 13	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
		All Stars 8
Plastique Tiara		Season 11	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Spice		Season 15	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Sugar		Season 15	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Mistress Isabelle Brooks		Season 15	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Kornbread Jeté		Season 14	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
DeJa Skye		Season 14	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Ts Madison		RPDR Judge	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
		RPDR All Stars Judge
Jimbo		Canada Season 1	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
		UK vs The World 1
		All Stars 8
Brittany Broski			Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
BeBe Zahara Benet		Season 1	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
		All Stars 3
Kahmora Hall		Season 13	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Maddy Morphosis		Season 14	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Crystal Methyd		Season 12	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Orville Peck			Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Sasha Colby		Season 15	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Luxx Noir London		Season 15	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Jaymes Mansfield		Season 9	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
		All Stars 8
Angeria Paris VanMicheals		Season 14	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Jessica Wild		Season 2	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
		All Stars 8
Lawrence Chaney		UK Season 2	Guest	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

Series Overview

RuPaul's Drag Race

Season		RPDR Season	No. Episodes	Dates
				Premiere	Finale
	1	8	10	March 8, 2016	May 18, 2016
	2	9	13	March 28, 2017	June 27, 2017
	3	10	13	March 27, 2018	July 3, 2018
	4	11	13	March 2, 2019	June 1, 2019
	5	12	13	March 1, 2020	May 31, 2020
	6	13	15	January 2, 2021	April 25, 2021
	7	14	15	January 9, 2022	April 24, 2022
	8	15	14	January 8, 2023	April 16, 2023
	9	16	TBA	January 6, 2024

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

Season		RPDR AS Season	No. Episodes	Dates
				Premiere	Finale
	2	2	8	August 27, 2016	October, 16, 2016
	3	3	8	January 30, 2018	March 20, 2018
	4	4	10	December 16, 2018	February 17, 2019
	5	5	8	June 7, 2020	July 26, 2020
	6	6	12	June 25, 2021	September 5, 2021
	7	7	12	May 22, 2022	July 31, 2022
	8	8	12	May 14, 2023	July 23, 2023

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

High Tea is the equivalent series for The Pit Stop that was available on VH1's website after a week and some days each episode of the series aired. There were eight webisodes hosted by Miz Cracker with two special guests.

Season		RPDR UK Season	No. Episodes	Dates
				Premiere	Finale
	1	1	8	October 12, 2019	November 30, 2019

Canada's Drag Race

Season		CDR Season	No. Episodes	Dates
				Premiere	Finale
	1	1	10	August 6, 2020	September 24, 2020

Trivia

• During Season 12's The Pit Stop Bob The Drag Queen wore the same houndstooth fabric pattern in different outfits, while during All Stars 5's The Pit Stop she wore looks themed around the colours of the rainbow pride flag.
  • On social media Bob has often joked that other queens and celebrities wearing houndstooth are stealing her look. During Bob's appearance on The Pit Stop for Season 13's Snatch Game, Trixie Mattel wore a houndstooth dress (which was the same dress Bob wore for Episode 4 of Season 12's Pit Stop) sent to her by Bob and joked that it was her look now.
• With the exception of Detox and Jujubee, all guest queens featured on Season 12's The Pit Stop are from New York.
• Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, episodes of The Pit Stop had to be filmed via video conference.
  • The latter half of Season 12, the entirety of All Stars 5 and Canada's Drag Race Season 1, and select episodes of Season 13 had to be filmed via video conference. The first episode of the series to be socially-distant filmed was Season 12 episode 7, with Aja as the guest.
  • The Pit Stop for Season 13 had Trixie in the studio with the guest on a screen. The exceptions to this are Episodes 3 and 4, when Trixie was at home on zoom with Priyanka and Jaida Essence Hall respectively; Episode 11, where BenDeLaCreme, who was presumably close enough to the studio to go in and was socially distanced from Trixie; and Episode 16, where Katya, who is a part of Trixie's quarantine pod, was socially distanced from Trixie.
• Season 12 Episode 11 was labelled as a mothers day special, this was because it was released on mothers day weekend and the host, Bob The Drag Queen, was joined by her drag daughter, Miz Cracker.
• For All Stars 5 all the guest queens invited for The Pit Stop were winners of a season of Drag Race.
• So far the only queens to host three seasons of The Pit Stop are Raja (All Stars 2, Season 9 and Season 10), Trixie Mattel (All Stars 4, Canada Season 1, Season 13 and All Stars 6) and Bob The Drag Queen (Season 12, All Stars 5 and All Stars 7).
  • Trixie is also the only queen to host four seasons of The Pit Stop.
• From her combined appearances on The Pit Stop as host and a guest, Trixie Mattel is the most frequent queen to star on The Pit Stop, hosting four seasons of the show as well as appearing as a guest recapping Season 8 and All Stars 2, making 48 total appearances to date. The queen with the second-most appearances is Bob who has appeared 39 times.
• Laganja Estranja is the most frequent Pit Stop guest, having made 9 appearances to date; the queen with the second most appearances is Delta Work who has made 7 appearances.
• Season 13 queen Tina Burner is the first queen to appear on The Pit Stop (or an equivalent aftershow) before appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race - she appeared in High Tea (the UK's Pit Stop equivalent) for the first episode of UK Season 1.
• Brooke Lynn Hytes became the first judge to be on The Pit Stop after being a guest on the finale recap of Canada Season 1.
• Cynthia Lee Fontaine, Alaska, and Farrah Moan are the only three queens who appeared as guests on the Pit Stop for a season they were on (Season 8, All Stars 2, and All Stars 4 respectively) while Manila Luzon is the only queen to host an episode of the Pit Stop for a season she was on (All Stars 4).
• Bob The Drag Queen, Sasha Velour, Trixie Mattel, Manila Luzon, Heidi N Closet, Katya, and Monét X Change were in episodes with a product placement.
  • Bob, Sasha, and Trixie did product promotion for Bubly Sparkling Water, with Bob being in two of them as both host (Season 12, Episode 1 with Sasha as the guest) and guest (Season 13, Episode 9 with Trixie as the host).
  • Trixie and Katya did a product placement for Truly Iced Tea in their review of Season 13, Episode 16.
  • Trixie did product placements for Orbitz for the first three reviews of All Stars 6, with Bob The Drag Queen for Episode 1, Manila Luzon for Episode 2, Heidi N Closet for Episode 3, and Monique Heart for Episode 4.
  • Monét and Katya did product placements for Sweet Tarts in their review of Season 14, Episode 8.
• High Tea is the only season to not feature a queen from Drag Race.
  • Tina Burner was a guest on High Tea prior to competing on Drag Race.
• Manila Luzon is the only Pit Stop host from Drag Race who isn’t a winner on their season.
• Barring Kingsley, every Pit Stop host so far made at least one appearance on the show as a guest before they took up hosting duties.
• The duos who have made the most frequent appearances together on The Pit Stop are Raja and Delta Work, Raja and Mariah Paris Balenciaga, Raja and Laganja Estranja, Raja and Manila Luzon, Bob The Drag Queen and Monét X Change and Trixie Mattel and Katya, all of whom have appeared together three times.
• The Pit Stop is one of the longest-running companion show alongside Fashion Photo RuView and Whatcha Packin'.
  • This is the only companion show not produced by World of Wonder.
• Season 15's premiere Pit Stop is the first episode to have two guests.
• To date, there have been five pairs of queens who have appeared as each other's host and guest on The Pit Stop: Alaska and Manila Luzon, Bob The Drag Queen and Raja, Bob The Drag Queen and Monét X Change, Trixie Mattel and Raja, and Monét X Change and Bianca Del Rio.
• Season 15's Pit Stop was filmed in December 2022.
• Monét X Change (All Stars 5) and Manila Luzon, Heidi N Closet and Laganja Estranja (All Stars 6) are the only queens to appear on The Pit Stop for an All Stars season they appeared as a Lip Sync Assassin on.
  • However, Manila and Heidi had not yet appeared as Lip Sync Assassins when they appeared on The Pit Stop.
• The Pit Stop for All Stars 8 Episode 6 was deleted and reuploaded to remove a reference by Bianca Del Rio to RuPaul's fracking.
• Season 9 is the Drag Race season with the most representation among its cast on The Pit Stop, with 11 out of 14 (79%) having appeared to date. The season with the second most is Season 8, with 9 out of its 12 (75%) queens having appeared.

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