 When the safety car returned to the pit, race leader Markus Winkelhock lost the lead very early on after another gamble, keeping wet weather tyres on while everybody else was on the more suitable intermediate tyre, in the hope that further rain would fall.It would not and eventually he was forced into retirement after a hydraulic failure on lap 15.Winkelhock had only driven the Spyker for a total of three days before the race, and had not previously experienced wet weather in a Formula One car.