A wet race, under lights around the Marina Bay circuit is a worse-case scenario for organisers.
It raises safety issues around a circuit which already generates safety cars during racing, and would have an impact on television coverage - a point almost certainly not lost on the commercial rights holder.
To circumvent that problem the Singapore government has a rather unique solution - it seeds clouds in an effort to have the rain fall before it ever reaches Singapore.
It's a common practice in some parts, with planes flown into cloud systems (or rockets launched into them) before unloading salt (or silver iodine) into the atmosphere, helping provide crystals around which the moisture can condense and therefore triggering precipitation.
Cloud seeding was first discovered in the 1940s and has been used around the world since.
Last year the Singapore government confirmed it was working with the Indonesian government to seed clouds off the coast, to have the rain fall on a forest in Indonesia which was ablaze at the time.
Therefore, despite what you may read or hear this weekend, we are all but assured of a dry Grand Prix.
http://www.pitpass.com/52470/Dry-race-g ... -Singapore
Where do you get 'should have won in 2008'? All things being equal, Massa was clearly quicker.SiLo wrote:For the sake of people claiming Rosberg is some form of demigod around this track, Hamilton probably should have won in 2008, and retired from the lead in 2012. He won in 2009.
And I'm sure that's a statistic Vettel would love to hear!
LOL. In 2008 Rosberg beat Hamilton around here in a much worse car.SiLo wrote:For the sake of people claiming Rosberg is some form of demigod around this track, Hamilton probably should have won in 2008,
Your point being?Kingshark wrote:LOL. In 2008 Rosberg beat Hamilton around here in a much worse car.SiLo wrote:For the sake of people claiming Rosberg is some form of demigod around this track, Hamilton probably should have won in 2008,
Yes Nico did benefit from the safety car and Piquet incident, but the 10-second stop-and-go penalty neutralized his advantage. Lewis was driving an MP4/23, while Nico was driving an FW30 (which finished 8th in the WCC ffs) and Nico still came out on top.
Before crossing the pitlane line, Rosberg was matching both Hamilton and Vettel on pace despite driving a weaker car.mkay wrote:Your point being?Kingshark wrote:LOL. In 2008 Rosberg beat Hamilton around here in a much worse car.SiLo wrote:For the sake of people claiming Rosberg is some form of demigod around this track, Hamilton probably should have won in 2008,
Yes Nico did benefit from the safety car and Piquet incident, but the 10-second stop-and-go penalty neutralized his advantage. Lewis was driving an MP4/23, while Nico was driving an FW30 (which finished 8th in the WCC ffs) and Nico still came out on top.
Lewis finished a minute ahead in 2009 despite Rosberg starting 3rd (Lewis, 1st) and Nakajima (FFS!) outraced Rosberg in the end.
We can play this game all day long.
I guess we don't have long to wait to find out who is really better around here! Unless one of the drivers has a reliability issue, which wouldn't be surprising.Kingshark wrote:
Needless to say, I've never denied that Hamilton has been reasonably good around this circuit. It's just that Alonso and Rosberg have been more impressive than him.