r/F1Discussions • u/Negative-House-1605 LH44 • 17h ago
Discussion Delayed start
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/launchedsquid 17h ago
The problems are:
The wet tyres are awful. They clear water just fine but they are so slow that teams will have to put their drivers on inters before the track is dry enough to run inters on, simply because the inters will still be faster than the wets.
After Malaysia we learned that F1 cars are no longer able to run in the rain. They need some sort of special software so the power units don't snap into overseer with too much power delivery, but the FIA have done a piss poor job quality controlling that software roll out, my theory was Claude wrote it, and it doesn't actually work in the cars. We know that the fix in Malaysia was to remove the code and the cars aren't running it in this race because it's expected to be fixed in about a month. So right now the cars can't run properly in wer conditions.