Re: Interlagos (may be a bit of a spoiler)

On 2024-11-05 12:51, a425couple wrote:

On 11/4/24 17:30, Alan wrote:

On 2024-11-03 20:48, ~misfit~ wrote:

On 4/11/2024 10:39 am, pP85PrR wrote:

What an F'd up weekend.
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I realize that there has always been weather that has affected race weekends, but this recent one is the worst I can recall. OK, maybe the Spa non-race is up there. (And I've been a fan for a while.)
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As an aside, kudos to the race director for the unnecessary confusion of abort/abandon.
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I'm afraid to check the news for penalties. I suspect it will be more of a shitshow.

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I was so pissed off when the red flag was thrown. It seems that most of the field don't have the sense to use the supplied full wet tyres when it's fully wet! So, the race director decides it's too dangerous and a guy who stayed out, partly causing this danger, on 30 lap old intermediate tyres in a downpour is gifted a win?

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The problem isn't that teams won't use the extreme wet.
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The problem is that we've gotten to the point where the technology of the cars combined with the extreme wet tires lets them work in conditions that throw up so much spray that the drivers really can't SEE.
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I've been out on a very wet track with far less technology and it can be a challenge.
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Just look at some of the in-car/on-car video from Brazil when it was just the intermediate tires and imagine it even worse with extreme wet tires.
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I do think that the FIA needs to re-think the rules regarding tire changes during red flag periods during a race, though.

 I certainly agree about heavy rain causing vision problems
for the drivers - this is not a skill problem, it is an absolute
safety problem.
And not just for the drivers, but also for race control and for
turn workers.
 

And that's coming from you...
...who I watched drive around at nearly walking pace in your sports racer after all your competitors had gone off track in heavy rain!