Safety car secrets with driver Bernd Maylander

F1 Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

He's led hundreds of laps in F1 – but you may never have heard of him. That’s because Bernd Maylander is the Safety Car driver, and has been for the last 20 years. When the weather is bad or there’s a serious incident, Bernd takes to the track to lead the field around at a safe speed – not fast by F1 standards, but still seriously quick. He gives us the inside line on his job, revealing who is the most aggressive behind the Safety Car, the worst conditions he’s ever driven in, how he feels about Lewis Hamilton always giving him the hurry up, and what happened with that massive re-start pile-up in Mugello recently…

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0:37.2	It's the moment that Formula One strategist Dread,
0:40.4	almost more than any other, the appearance of the safety car.
0:44.5	Its deployment can turn a race on its head, with a whole host of decisions
0:48.9	needing to be made in seconds to pick or not to pit.
0:52.8	And if you do pit, what tires do you put on?
0:55.6	And on the back of that head,
0:57.6	welcome to Beyond the Grid with me Tom Clarkson.
1:00.9	My guess this week is the man who's driven the safety car for the last 20 years.
1:06.1	Burt Maylander.
1:07.2	The 49-year-old German was an excellent touring car and sports car racer in his own right,
1:12.8	and he's now driven more than 700 laps in the lead of Grand Prix.
1:17.8	On average, each race is, say, 60 laps.
1:21.0	So Maylander has led the equivalent of 12 races from start to finish in various Mercedes.
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