The dustiness off line means we should also keep our eye out for the safety car, especially because the inexperience of the marshals here means that the FIA are more likely to send out Bernd Maylander and his machine to slow down the field.

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With the safety car deployed, the teams took the opportunity to pit with Raikkonen cleverly holding up the line of cars as they entered the pits to allow team-mate Montoya, who was already with the mechanics, to finish his stop.

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