"Traffic building near Turn 1," Elias said. "Three cars are on out-laps. Dubois is on a push. Vega is starting his second run."
"How long does Rossi have?"
"He's leaving the pit lane now. His out-lap puts his flying lap starting with about two minutes forty on the clock."
Leo did the arithmetic.
'Two minutes forty is enough. He'll run one clean lap. He has the time.'
He came through Turn 14 and caught sight of Rafael Vega's ART car ahead of him — the Spaniard on a hot lap, the ART's rear stepping on the exit of the corner and then snapping back into line with the mechanical abruptness of a car that was at the edge of its rear tyre's operating window.
Vega was pushing hard. His second run had the urgency of a driver who had seen the timing board and understood that the gap between P5 and P8 had closed while he was in the pits.
Leo watched the ART's exit line.
