It was bad luck that he just happened to be in that position. There was nothing he could have done about it - he was stuck in first gear. There should really have been a warning - the yellow flag should have been hung out warning the drivers that there was a car proceeding at a slow pace ahead. In any case, the chicane has now been moved 100 yards farther on down the quayside, which means there is more room to brake and a car could, in fact, get stopped before the chicane. If there was a pile-up and the chicane got blocked now, anyone coming round the brow of the hill would have time to stop.
Nobody wants a race to get messed up because of something stupid like that.
Anyway, I set off after the leaders and gradually whittled the time down. First, I caught up my teammate Stewart, who had moved into first place when I went down the escape road, but Stewart had spun at Ste Devote and lost the lead on lap 30. They were having a tremendous ding-dong among themselves. Brabham had been after them and had taken the lead on lap 34, but on lap 43 he ran out of oil and had to coast into the pits to retire. I was having a terrific scrap and broke the lap record a number of times - I was motoring faster and faster as the fuel load got lighter.