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2011 Grand Prix Insights - The Safety Car

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If there's an accident during a Grand Prix, there can be debris left on the track or a car can stop in a dangerous position. If this happens, then the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Safety Car and its driver, Bernd Maylander, come to the fore. The Safety Car was first used in a race in 1973, and since 1996 it has been a Mercedes-Benz product. Since then, nine different models with three-pointed star have been deployed 136 times, leading the way for 580 laps. This feature shows Bernd's tasks and duties, as well as everything the F1 drivers have to take into account during a Safety Car phase. "Sometimes a little slow," admits Michael Schumacher, "you feel to run behind the safety car but that's the way it is and it's the same for everybody." "When the safety car comes out we are generally going quite slow," adds Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, "so there are a few things we need to watch. First of all it's engine temperatures so you need to run high gears low revs to cool the engine a little bit and then also the brakes becoming too cool which is a problem because we have carbon brakes and finally also the tyres. So we need to work on all those things put brake energy into the car and also left and right to keep the tyres up to temperature."
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