ThePit Crew is the ensemble of scantily clad male models who appear on camera for various segments of the American television seriesRuPaul's Drag Race and its derivatives, utilizing themotif ofcar drag racing.^[1] Duringseason 6 ofDrag Race,^[2] and onDrag Race Thailand, the group are known as theScruff Pit Crew. The group are called theBrit Crew onRuPaul's Drag Race UK.^[3] A behind-the-scenes weeklyweb seriesOh Pit Crew launched in 2014 with season six and airs onWOW Presents Plus, and its relatedYouTube channel.^[4][5]

Crew members often appear dressed only in designer underwear, and features as human props, and in sketches, mini-, and maxi-challenges to aid thedrag queen contestants.^[1][4] In one mini-challenge called "Pants Down Bottoms Up", the competing drag queens picked Pit Crew men by two to drop their pants until they found matching underwear.^[6]

Pit Crew members of the first season ofRuPaul's Drag Race included Kenyon Glover, Keon Hunt, and Preston Taylor.^[1] Max "The Body" Philisaire participated during the second season.^[1]

Television host and men's lifestyle expert Jason J. Carter joined for seasons 3–10.^[1][7]Shawn Morales was a member for seasons 3–6.^[1][8] According to Morales, he and Carter got the job through their beinggo-go dancers in gay clubs; a friend "knew someone in the casting department" and secured an audition.^[9]

Ronnie Kroell was a Pit Crew member for the fifth season.^[10][11] Miles Davis Moody, an actor and model, was a member for seasons 6–8.^[1][12][13]Simon Sherry-Wood was a member for the sixth season, and previously starred onThe Real World: Paris (2003).^[1][14] Bryce Eilenberg, astraight ally, was a member since season 7.^[1][7][15] Jared North and Yadier Despaigne joined the crew for season 9.^[1]Laith Ashley appeared as the Pit Crew's first openlytrans man during the series' tenth season.^[6][16][17]Bruno Alcantara joined the crew for the eleventh season (2019),^[18] and Calixto Quan was a member during the fifteenth season.^[19]

Wilson Lai was a member during thefourth season ofRuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.^[20][21][22]

Drag Race Thailand started in 2018 with an eight-member crew branded as theScruff Pit Crew, after the queer men's datingmobile app.^[23] Up to three members appeared in each episode.^[23] Members include Nikkai, cosplay enthusiast Nut, and Pae.^[23]

The Brit Crew members were announced a few weeks prior toRuPaul's Drag Race UK premiering in October 2019.^[3][24] The casting requirements included that they were at least six feet tall, attractive, “athletic and toned physique”, no tattoos, aged 18-35, and comfortable in just underwear.^[24] The series debuted with five members, and two more were added after the first episode.^[25] Season 1 members include:

• AJ Bediako, an actor, model, andgamer.^[26][3]
• Archie Ahern, a lawyer in the music industry.^[3][27][28]
• Ashraf “Raf” Ejjbair, amulti-sensory artist,go-go dancer, and event host.^[3][26][25]
• Matt Lister, a multi-medal winningslalom canoeist, model, and fitness writer, he is openly gay, anLGBTQ ambassador for theBritish Athletes Commission, and as of October 2019, engaged to his boyfriend.^{[3][26][29][30]}
• Mitch Marion, anopenly gay part-time model, and filmmaker.^[3][31][32]
• Niko Wirachman (35–36 years old), is half German and halfIndonesian, openly gay, is a professional dancer, and actor doing musical theater, and represented Germany in the 2017Mr. Gay Europe contest.^{[26][33][34][35][36][37]}
• Tom Scanlon, a musical theater actor, and a drag queen in the quintet The Globe Girls.^[26][38]

RuPaul's Drag Race Live! shows in Las Vegas features a rotating cast ofRuPaul's Drag Race contestants in a live show akin to theWerq the World tour.^[39] The shows Pit Crew all double as dancers in the queens' numbers.^[39] Crew members include: AJ Watkins, Dallas Eli, Filip Lacina, Michael Silas, Nick Lemer, and Sebastian Gonzalez.^[39] In 2024, theseason 16 episode "Drag Race Vegas Live! Makeovers" featured RuPaul's Drag Race contestants giving makeovers to members of the variety show's Pit Crew.

The Pit Crew onCanada's Drag Race attracted media attention for including Mina Gerges, who was the firstplus-size man to be featured in the Pit Crew on any edition of the series,^[40] and Travis L'Henaff, anHIV-positive model and activist who has been featured in HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns in Canada.^[41] Other members included Evan Boutsov, Seth Falk, andMinhi Wang,^[42][43] who later competed on the show'sfifth season.^[44][45][46]

Regular members of the Pit Crew ofRuPaul's Drag Race Down Under includedMax Currie, Sean Walters, and Rod Tian.^[47][48]

The twelve members of Pit Crew on the Spanish adaptation were presented a few weeks prior toDrag Race España premiering in May 2021.^[49] New members were introduced duringseason 2, among them a trans man and abear.^[50]

Megui Yeillow became the first Pit Crew member to compete on the show.^{[citation needed]} Guille Flores has also been a member.^[51]

Pit Crew members ofDrag Race Philippines have included JP Ocat, Ricardo De Jesus, Dheyle Dizon, and Jaycee Sahagun.^[52]

Pit Crew members ofDrag Race Brasil have included Alex Burán and Richard Kuellar.^[53]

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