Na, it's not even hindsight. This was easily anticipated by many. Race promoters are gonna take a huge L on this one. I mean...it's a fucking typhoon. WTF were they thinking? You literally can't call off the hurricane. LOL. PEACE.
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Na, it's not even hindsight. This was easily anticipated by many. Race promoters are gonna take a huge L on this one. I mean...it's a fucking typhoon. WTF were they thinking? You literally can't call off the hurricane. LOL. PEACE.
SunhiLegend
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I'd fucking hope so.
Myoclonic Jerk
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good call
aspiegamer
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US TV claims the race promoters were offered a chance to move up the start time and refused. That would be quite the twist, assuming it wasn't Bernie twisting their arms.
marvelharvey
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Right, off to the podium then.
They should sue the typhoon! Damnit! AND WAR.
Well this is going as predicted.
The Danish commentators mentioned that in Japan, they locally have a third type of tire in the wet series. Intermediate, Full Wet, and "Monsoon", but those aren't available to F1. Seems like an idea for later seasons.
And now they're setting up tents. Extreme camping!
The Danish commentators mentioned that in Japan, they locally have a third type of tire in the wet series. Intermediate, Full Wet, and "Monsoon", but those aren't available to F1. Seems like an idea for later seasons.
And now they're setting up tents. Extreme camping!
aspiegamer
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Why are they not on the grid? I've never seen a lineup in the pit lane.
I remember that some of the drivers mentioned this a few years ago after one of the red-flagged Malaysia races. The consensus seemed to be that current full wets of today move more water than previous generations of super-duper-wets. Also, you can only put so much tread depth on F1 types before things get weird.
I'm sure there were a lot of "business concerns" regarding all this crap, but it just shows how shameful commercial sports are. The primary consideration should be how the sport can be carried out in the safest and most satisfying way. Everything else should be secondary. It just feels gross to me.
brotkasten
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I like that they parked the cars in the pit lane, so they could just push the cars back into the pits and end the race like that.
FIA suggested move to noon local time and then even to earlier time (10 or 11 am local) but organizers decided against that
Elvin Atombender
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I think they used to have those in F1 as well 15-20 years ago.
DC said that there's only one door in the pit wall and it becomes a long run for the teams at the ends of the pit lane to get to the grid.
I doubt they're for open-wheel formulas. There's just not enough ground clearance to allow it. The full wets displace a lot of water. They're really advanced designs, but you can't overcome certain conditions. PEACE.
theignoramus
Member
Oh my word, how fucking idiotic do the promoters look for not rescheduling the race? Bureaucratic stupidity.
So, they apply that logic with no problem. How the fuck do they not act that intelligently to the race time?
SunhiLegend
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I'm out, going to try and get some sleep. Flu kept me up all night and it doesn't look like this race will start anytime soon.
Ridiculous that this race wasn't rescheduled to start earlier.
Ridiculous that this race wasn't rescheduled to start earlier.
Hang on, race restarting in ten minutes.
seattle6418
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What a bunch of little kids. Back when i started watching F1 they would race during rain. Now because of the stupid no ride height rule they can't race in anything more than a drizzle.
Very stupid. Racing saturday is a lot better than not racing at all, if they were concerned about people who bought tickets. Going to sleep i guess...
Very stupid. Racing saturday is a lot better than not racing at all, if they were concerned about people who bought tickets. Going to sleep i guess...
brotkasten
Member
It's all good. Thanks for your gifs, but you really should get some rest then.
The "race" will be "resumed" in 10 minutes eh?
Two more laps behind the SC!
Yeah, I suppose there's only so much water a Formula One car can take, even if the tires were theoretically optimal for the conditions.
You know, there probably should be some kind of special heavy rain rules in place, we get one of these every season. Not sure what to do, though, can't really fight nature when it REALLY wants that racetrack to be more like a river. Nature's scary.
You know, there probably should be some kind of special heavy rain rules in place, we get one of these every season. Not sure what to do, though, can't really fight nature when it REALLY wants that racetrack to be more like a river. Nature's scary.
They need them as according to John Noble of autosport we are still officially on lap 0.
Yagami_Sama
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The race will restart in about ten minutes. Let's hope, that the track has improved.
But for how long...?
aspiegamer
Member
That yellow cluster developed riiiiiiiiight there in a minutes before start. Pink = an actual gap in the rain.
It has but who knows for how long. If they had kept going behind the safety car, we might have had a race by now.
About fifteen minutes, apparently.
Possibly, and they'd have displaced a lot of water with the tyres. Can't take any chances though I guess.
Can't believe the commentators are actually buying into the optimism that the rain has stopped and it's actually going to be a race. I expect the worst honestly. In 15 minutes they'll still be behind the Safety Car, and suddenly the rain will be back. What a total waste of time.
Yes, I'm pretty mad. Lol.
Yes, I'm pretty mad. Lol.
Mohonky
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I dont understand this either.
Hamilton and Rosberg were friends, probably less so now but the rivalry between him and Rosberg isnt exactly extreme, if it were Alonso and arosberg playing out as this season has, I am willing to bet it would be really icy in that garage. There just doesnt seem to be any actual benefit to signing Alonso in over Hamilton, he is still going to tangle with Rosberg and its always going to be a concern, it'll never be like Webber and Vettel where Vettel was far enough out the guys werent regularly tripping on one another. So whether they signed in Alonso or even Vettel and ousted Hamilton, whats the point?
Track is showing some nice dry patches, plus F1 cars apparently display 65 liters of water per second on wets, I wouldn't be so pessimistic at least.
It is what it is, according to Dutch commentary the race organizers blocked an 11AM start time due to public.