250th Grand Prix with the Mercedes-Benz Safety Car in Abu Dhabi
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The Mercedes-Benz safety car has been used since the 1996 French GP in Magny-Cours
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The first Safety Car was the Mercedes-Benz C36 AMG company car of Bernd Mayländer (Registration number: S-BM 300)
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Since the first run of the Mercedes-Benz Safety Car in 1996 until the 2010 Abu Dhabi GP a total of 250 races took place: there were 90 races (equivalent 36%) with at least one Safety Car period
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The Safety Car was deployed 135 times
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Out of a total of 15.528 race laps 574 laps were completed behind the Safety Car
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Since the Safety Car’s first run in the1996 French GP, it has covered 2853.9 km (equivalent to 3.8% of the total race distance of 75,657 until the Abu Dhabi GP).
