Safety car

But if there are any listeners who weren't watching F1 in 2021, my absolute recommendation would be to go back and read about the Belgian Grand Prix in 2021 because...

I remember the sheer excitement of seeing the weather forecast going into that weekend and seeing it was going to be raining for when the race was meant to be and going this is going to be great Spa always produces wonderful racing and now there's rain it's going to be even more exciting we've got plenty of drivers who excel in the rain And then we had, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, I think we had three or four laps behind the safety car.

And that was it because the rain was so bad.

And post Belgian Grand Prix 2021, everyone was traumatized to even ask for wet weather conditions because we were worried it was going to end up being the exact same thing.

I believe throughout the race he was like P5, about P5, give or take.

But, I mean, was just too far back and not quick enough to really do anything.

impact anything um peros on the other hand very much in the fight very much kind of p2 p3 throughout the race um obviously ended up retiring but had a significant significant impact after i believe it was after max's first pit stop um peros was then in the lead with lewis hamilton and p2 Was it first or was it the one after the safety car?

I think it was the first to hold up Lewis so that Max could make his way back in.

It's very, very difficult to get a car to work in the same setup in both dry and wet conditions.

very busy on the back straight going down into turn 10 that is a load of traffic that the 38 car has just cleared sebastian bordet danny uncadet though is likewise trying to do the same in his number 19 car he's been at the wheel of the genesis since the start of the race but i suppose the team are happy to leave him there because the first half the first third of the race was so heavily affected by safety car and full course yellow very impressive run from the 92 Porsche to this point they are seventh in the championship and they've taken three third place finishes so far two in the opening races at Imola and Spa and then after Le Mans at Sao Paulo they finished third but they're certainly not finished as a winning crew quite yet might bring them into the mixture for a top three finish in the championship So the suggestion from Ye Yi Fei suggesting that they maybe make a stop earlier, I think he was saying, so refuel less.

or maybe well no pitting later and putting less fuel in would give them a bit of track position how far through I

think he meant pitting earlier and go for an undercut

But that will take some mistakes from our competitors.

So we're going longer, like you see.

The lead was purely because we were able to extend stints, hoping at some point you may be lucky with a safety car or something.

But it was nice to be in the battle as to where we are.

It looked like it was gonna be a decent result for him, podium, points, all of that.

But then under the virtual safety car, the team tried to call him in.

Lewis said afterwards he missed the pit entry, then decided to stay out and keep his position.

To him, the car felt good.

Mas desta vez o Lewis tomou ali um, um par de decisões queee, se calhar, justificam o sexto lugar que ele tem.

Sérgio, f-fez sentido para ti ele sair de médios e depois, no segundo virtual safety car, decidir não entrar e ficar em pista para ganhar posição ao colega?

Não, n-não me fez sentido e eu acho que tá, depois mais tarde, percebeu-se que tinha sido um pedido, uma decisão dele, porque acho que toda a gente pensou: "Pronto, a Ferrari fez asneira outra vez, mandou parar um, é, e podia ter feito o double stack." Os dois segundos que ele perdia de espera em mais do que compensavam aquilo que depois perdeu, aquilo que perdeu.

Mas foi uma decisão do Lewis e vou buscar aquilo que dissemos o ano pass-o ano passado, então, foi gritante, que era nenhum dos pilotos sobrepunha as decisões da equipe, eram maus.

O Lewis ontem decidiu sobrepor-se a uma decisão da equipe e disse: "Vou arriscar." Fosse porque ele estava à espera de outro safety car, é, e ganhava a posição em pista e, e, e com, contudo, ganhava-o e justificaria, e depois não aconteceu.

Ele tomou uma decisão, trocou estratégias e arriscou.

Tendo em consideração como está o campeonato, queee já estava praticamente decidido, agora ainda mais, e tudo isso.

Não, não vejo disso dessa forma.

And Marty Naris, thank you, and welcome to the Mustang Owners podcast.

We can't wait to find out what the heck happened to you and your love for pace cars.

Thanks for joining us tonight.

Thank you for having me.

No, so, so Mike, when we first heard that Marty, you know, was running the club and, you know, every, every president would get a car or two, and he got a pace car.

We thought, "Well, that's cool.

You know, that's nice." And, um, and people who know Mustangs, they know of a couple of pace cars.

You know, the '79 Fox is the one, the '94.

Yeah.

And then because they're under a safety car, no one can overtake him.

Everyone else has to keep then going as slowly as Verstappen is going.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So it was very funny.

My favorite part of this was Verstappen and the safety car driver, Bernd Maylander, nearly lapped about eight cars.

[laughs]

So much fun to watch once it did get started with all of it.

Of course, a Cadillac, first safety car, The pit stops come in.

Lewis doesn't pit.

It's amazing, but he finally gets those soft tires to start working.

Some of it is a little surprising.

And we will talk about the flashpoint of the race, which turns out to be the safety car.

Finishing in the non-classified finishers, Lance Stroll, Fernando Alonso, and Alex Albon.

Those aren't, hugely surprising.

Nope.

We're still circulating.

It's not until Alex Albon puts it in the wall and brings out a full safety car that we got any pit stops.

Like I said, you could be still be running around that circuit today.

I guess this was the biggest talking point of the race.

Up until the safety car.

So Verstappen got let past Hadja, effectively.

But there came a point where clearly his medium tyres were not as good as Hadja's softs.

It's not going to go well, but...

It seems so logical to do it, but then you get disproven.

Your logic gets pulled from under you because when there is a safety car and Max is on fresh tires, he is the guy.

Like him and Russell just disappeared.