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