Sepang weather

We still would if they let them race.

Edited by Ravenak, 21 March 2013 - 23:14.

No hell. Back then rain was tons more of action guaranteed than the regular dry race. Now it´s roughly the same than a dry race.

And steady rain throughout the whole weekend does cause the teams to set the cars up for wet (higher cars). Which means that they can actually run in the wet.

No it doesn't. The current cars are not designed with this in mind.

I think you need to explain this again .... and in detail... in a single post if possible. Its not as common knowledge as you assume.

Edited by corf, 22 March 2013 - 00:08.

In Kuala Lumpur it drizzled at 5pm and 10pm yesterday, off to the circuit now :-)

No hell. Back then rain was tons more of action guaranteed than the regular dry race. Now it´s roughly the same than a dry race.

Emlyn Hughes @radarguruf1

#F1 Friday #Sepang: Dry, hot and sticky AM for P1. Chance of storms developing early afternoon for P2, but more likely afterwards. Max 33c.

Edited by Menace, 22 March 2013 - 01:37.

Why hasn't the race start been moved closer to noon local?

This is idiotic.

It ALWAYS pours in the afternoon at this time of the year. Is this really all about the European viewers??? ********.

Originally, the starting time was 3pm. But it was moved to 5pm to cater to the European audience, and back to 4pm after the debacles of rainstorms a couple of years back.

Well neither have ever started at that sort of time. Melbourne used to be around 2/3am and Sepang used to be around 5/6am, both of which I'm happy with. Personally I'd have every race on the calendar starting at 2pm local time (ok that'd mean no twilight races and no Singapore night race, but I can live with that). I've always been a big fan of being up at silly o'clock watching F1, that'll never change.

Surely due to the humidity, they can bubble up out of nowhere?

Let's all be honest here. We know how this will end. Hours and hours of watching cars stationary, under tarpaulins until it gets too dark to race.

It's a nonsense.

Indeed it is. Unless it's absolutely pelting down like the condiditons in Adelaide 1991, the FIA and Whiting need to scrap this bullshit "oh! it's raining! We have to wrap the drivers in cotton wool and call out the safety car!" approach and just bloody-well let them race in the wet like they used to. The current way wet F1 races are handled is nothing short of farcical.

Fantastic idea, but if it pours in Malaysia at this time of the year you're simply not going to race at all. It will be impossible with the current cars.

and tyres because FIA dont give permission for monsoons that pirelli would be ready to do.

Edited by Eff One 2002, 22 March 2013 - 06:47.

If there is a rain in KL there are no tyres in this world that woulx let you race. Ofc i mean KL type of rain

I can't remember who it was but a member who lives out there predicted this when Bernie changed the race times. He said then that it always rains around 5pm at this time of year.

Why they have race at 16:00 local time? it is simply ********.
They should put it around 12-14

I still fail to see how somehow managing to wake up at 6am on a Sunday morning is supposed to be easier than having a late Saturday night?

Edited by Rosberg, 22 March 2013 - 16:53.

I wish Whiting could be a bit more accessible, and explain why the sport has become so ridiculously risk-averse in terms of the weather in recent years. There's literally very little point in Pirelli spending money to manufacture full wet tires now.

I still prefer to see drivers showing skills while driving at their maximum in the rain than watch drivers saving their tyres and using drs to overtake. But maybe thats just me...

You know nothing about the inter tyres if you think it´s like that.

Inters always take much more smoothness to make them hold on for long than slicks. They´re sacrificing loads of instant performance, especially everytime they get back on the throttle after a corner to keep tyres alive, they are miles away from the maximum acceleration they could get with allowance for some wheelspin. And if we talk about a bit of moisture without proper rain ammounts, it gets worse. THAT is proper coasting, and not what we have to hear about current slicks from apocaliptic guys.

The biggest difference nowadays is that you have cars on parc ferme after qualifying, meaning you cant touch its setup. Before, you could make allowances for wet weather, like raising the ride height. That means the car comes from qualy so low, that with some standing water they just float on the track.

Saying it looks favourite to stay dry based on what 1 person posts from 1 weather forecasting site is daft. Fact of the matter is there's a risk. Just because that 1 site says mainly sunny or whatever does NOT mean it's going to be sunny, nor does it mean it's going to be dry. We all know the weather can turn in a matter of moments at Sepang.

Edited by Ravenak, 23 March 2013 - 00:01.

And who was talking about inter tyres?

Good getaway.

Edited by Obi Offiah, 23 March 2013 - 07:09.

Edited by Ravenak, 23 March 2013 - 10:31.