From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-11-11 13:07, Dumas Walker wrote:   
   >>> Many years ago, when Michael Schummacher was driving and, IIRC, Fernando   
   >>> Alonso was young, they had a heck of a wet race at the same facility.   
   >   
   >>> I remember it because I believe they both crashed out.   
   >   
   >> 2003 was pretty bad, cars aquaplaning off left, right and centre. It was   
   >> abandoned after 56 laps, and Jordan ended up winning.   
   >   
   > Yes, that is the one I was thinking about.  It was a very wet and crazy   
   > race.   
   >   
   >   
   >   * SLMR 2.1a * No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.   
      
   The basic issue is that the technology has outstripped safety when   
   there's too much rain.   
      
   Yes: they can bolt on the extreme wets, but they throw so much water   
   into the air, that the drivers simply can't see far enough ahead.   
      
   I've raced in the wet with far less capable tires than F1 has and   
   without the aero bits that help to throw the spray up even more, and I   
   can honestly say there have been times when I couldn't see anything.   
      
   One time, as I was going down the front straight behind to other FFs,   
   visibility wasn't too bad so I could see that they were going to be   
   fighting to the inside as the lead car drove to block off the next guy.   
      
   But then the track got wetter, and I lost sight of both of them in the   
   spray...   
      
   ...until following car suddenly appeared as I was braking down the   
   normal rain line about a car width and a half inside the rubbered in   
   normal line.   
      
   He was moving back to the outside to open up the corner after deciding   
   that an inside pass wasn't going to happen, and he couldn't see me   
   behind him...because of the spray.   
      
   When we both finally saw each other, I moved all the way to the wall and   
   he managed to leave me a bare (bare!) car's width between him and the   
   wall, to the point that when I returned to the paddock after the race   
   and looked, my left side tires didn't have any of the white paint in the   
   molded numbers anymore.   
      
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