{"id":241895,"date":"2025-07-06T05:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T05:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241895\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T05:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T05:18:10","slug":"safety-fast-driving-astons-other-f1-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241895\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety fast: driving Aston’s other F1 car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayl\u00e4nder\u2019s three laps are a breathtaking display of on-limit control, interspersed with savage acceleration and ferocious braking.<\/p>\n

Commitment like this is essential when there are 20 F1 cars looming in his rear-view mirror, he says: \u201cEspecially when there\u2019s debris on the track, the drivers don\u2019t always know and maybe get frustrated because I\u2019m holding them back. I try not to, but safety comes first.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Back at the garage, he describes how, on race day, he and long-serving co-driver, Richard Darker, will have been strapped into their Vantage at the pit exit with the engine running for at least 10 minutes before the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u00a0feel the tension,\u201d he says. Among recent races, the Australian Grand Prix stands out. \u201cThe rain was extreme and we had a few deployments and did 13 laps in\u00a0total.<\/p>\n

In such conditions, you need\u00a0a communicative car like the Vantage that lets you know where the track is drying out, which we report to the race director.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, poised at the back\u00a0of the grid ready to deploy during the race\u2019s critical opening lap, is\u00a0the F1 medical car. It\u2019s here at Stowe today \u2013 an Aston Martin DBX 707<\/a>, one of two that have been in service since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayl\u00e4nder\u2019s three laps are a breathtaking display of on-limit control, interspersed with savage acceleration and ferocious braking. Commitment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-241895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114804602080963115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}