Drivers will face a seamless danger of rain throughout all three days of the British Grand Prix weekend – however there may be hope Sunday’s race could keep dry.
Regardless of it being the peak of the British summer time, it is going to be a cloudy, cool and certain moist weekend of racing.
At present’s opening day of apply has begun with the primary on-track session of the weekend, the Method 3 apply session, going down on a moist monitor with temperatures sitting at 13 levels – far decrease than they might be throughout a sometimes dry day in July. Rain ought to cease by the point the primary F1 apply begins at 12:30pm, whereas the second apply session needs to be barely hotter however nonetheless possible dry.
Saturday is anticipated to be wetter than Friday, with a really excessive likelihood of rain for the F3 dash race and F1’s last apply session, which begins simply earlier than noon. Circumstances ought to stay cool for the F2 dash race after which there can be slightly below a 50-50 likelihood of rain falling for the beginning of Method 1 qualifying.
The rain is anticipated to proceed on Sunday. The Method 3 function race is prone to escape with beginning earlier than the rain arrives, however the F2 drivers won’t be so fortunate when their function race begins at 10am. A heavy rain bathe is anticipated between the top of Method 2 and the grand prix itself at 3pm, however there may be nonetheless a risk of extra rain falling by means of the race.
It might be that drivers will want moist or intermediate tyres for the early laps earlier than the monitor begins to dry out, making the grand prix a take a look at of drivers’ and groups’ reactivity.
If it does rain, this would be the first moist British Grand Prix since 2016, the place Lewis Hamilton led dwelling Mercedes group mate Nico Rosberg in a wet-dry race.
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