So, 40 mins before FP1..
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Lewis Hamilton has taken victory at the United States Grand Prix, a result that was enough to seal his third F1 World Championship. Nico Rosberg made it another one-two finish for Mercedes AMG F1 while Sebastian Vettel finished third for Ferrari.
It's getting darker. Now
I hate to burst mercs bubble...but compared to a texas thunderstorm that is still very light rain.
It would have to be one hell of an accident to require a crane. The nearest gravel is in Arizona and the nearest barriers are in California.ME4ME wrote:I agree. Problem is, even if they were to let them qualifying in heavy rain, as soon as the first car goes off, they'll need to get a crane on track and the session will be red flagged anyway. Again and again .. until time has run out.
Traffic issues are easily solved by engineers in the pitwall using GPS and radios effectively.ChrisF1 wrote:It's not just run off though - rain causes visibility problems for the drivers, and Qualifying is usually a mixture of hot laps and warmup/cool down laps so you naturally see variation of speed. Lapping people in a race is hazardous - Schumacher-Coulthard at Spa for example, so it would be even worse in Quali.
(Yes, I realise that's less likely as teams would fill up the tanks and just send the drivers to lap continually, but there will still be variations)
Add in that the weather conditions may prevent the medical services from carrying out their duties and it just wouldn't happen. Can you imagine the backlash if somebody were to be injured a year after Bianchi's crash in wet weather?
Im about 20 minutes north of the track and its not quite that dark...unless its my screen settings. Itll also lighten up here soon as it seems to be clearing for a bit.Juzh wrote:Wtf?? Such darkness at 10 am local?
some of that is just the camera, but it can be that dark during storms. My brother lives in Dallas, and he's sent photos of it being darker than that at 2 in the afternoon.Juzh wrote:Wtf?? Such darkness at 10 am local?