Safety Car driver Bernd Maylander incredibly, and slightly worryingly, revealed that the pace car nearly ran out of fuel 16 years ago, at the Japanese Grand Prix. Back in 2007, the Japanese GP was taking place not at Suzuka, but in Fuji, after the latter had undergone a redesign. The race was won by rookie
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Formula 1 Safety Car driver Bernd Maylander has seen it all in his 23-year career at the pinnacle of motorsport, with the German having had an incredible amount of talent in his rear view mirror. Michael Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen, just a few of the names who’ve sat patiently (most
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Charles Leclerc and George Russell engaged in a hilarious bit of banter over the Mercedes Safety Car in the aftermath of the Australian Grand Prix. The Safety Car was deployed twice during Sunday’s race as a result of crashes for Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and then Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel, with Bernd Maylander continuing his impressive
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Mercedes have unveiled the new Safety Car and Medical Car that will be used in Formula 1 this upcoming season. The first Mercedes Safety Car was introduced to F1 in 1996, with the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG being utilised during race cautions. Since then, models such as the SLS Gullwing and the AMG GT R have
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Aston Martin has unveiled its Safety and Medical cars which will be used this upcoming season as the British car brand shares the honours with Mercedes. This coincides with Aston Martin returning to F1 this year for the first time in over six decades following Racing Point’s rebrand. READ: Chinese Engine Company Set To Return
MoreBernd Maylander has been F1’s Safety Car driver since 2000, so he is well accustomed to how different drivers behave when they are leading the pack just behind him. In a recent interview, Maylander revealed that Lewis Hamilton is “definitely the toughest” driver to have leading the pack under the Safety Car, as the Brit
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