f1 safety car 2023 Page 3

In the 2023 Formula 1 season, Safety Car duties were shared by the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series and the Aston Martin Vantage. Bernd Mayländer kept the field in line, as he’s been doing since dial-up internet was a thing. Which car turned up depended on the event, but both did the same job—cool the chaos, then scarper so the racing could resume. Medical backup came from their equally rapid stablemates, because even caution laps in F1 don’t do slow.