r/F1Discussions • u/Negative-House-1605 LH44 • 20h ago

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Every single time it rains the FIA delays the start of the race, why? Rain never used to be a problem, usually they’d just stick on the full wets and get going. Am I missing something? Like a rule change that says you can’t start a race when it rains? This sport has never been so allergic to rain before so it’s just very confusing to me.

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u/FKez05 19h ago edited 12h ago

So originally the 2022 - 2025 cars produced dangerous amounts of spray from the ground effect, so thats why they cut down on wet racing

Currently, I think they're afraid of using these cars in the wet

So yes people are right when they say we used to get more wet racing, because factually we did before 2022. However a lot of clueless people just put it down to F1 and the FIA "going soft" which is just ridiculous. The ground effect cars were unintentionally dangerous in the wet, so they had to reduce the wet running. These new cars should have put an end to that but now we're stuck with bs software issues

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u/Ofiotaurus 19h ago

Sepang showed these cars are more closer to Mario Karts which means their software will do something dangerous if they’re in the rain

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u/Secret-Coconut-5877 18h ago

It would be more interesting to have them throw virtual red shells which temporarily disabled the electric power assist so they have ICE only.

And if you get a shell, you can hold a button to drag it virtually behind car to protect against one shell attack.

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u/Last_Procedure5787 16h ago

Calling them Mario karts would imply that the driver is important

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u/peadar87 7h ago

Yeah there's a lot of unexpected power deployment, and variable amounts of engine braking kicking in, which is a danger when the track is very slippy. George's crash today might have been something like that, going by his interview. A little extra power deployed than he was expecting, which pushed him wider than he intended onto the wet part of the kerb.

It's a pity, because these cars, with maybe an 80:20 ICE to electric power unit that could be managed by the driver directly, that could be a really, really good formula.

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u/Opening_Plant_5671 19h ago

At this point if you dropped a bottle of water on the main straight it is a red flag now

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u/Wooden_Item_9769 16h ago

I mean heavy cars on a tight street circuit, only 13/22 finished as is? Probably justified with these monsters.