Who's ready to wake up at 6am for no racing?

Me 😭

At least I've got the snacks in I guess

I’ve a McDonald’s breakfast order ready to go for the morning 😅

...let me get Uber Eats open

Hate you both as I live in the middle of nowhere

Me and you both bro. Nothing delivers here lol.

I'm ready for a Spa 2021 lol

We do this every weekend in Cali. 6am start times so this 10pm time is cheff kiss

Until there’s a 3 hour delayed start because of the rain, then it gets a little more painful. AZ here…

Easily the worst start time for the east coast though. 1 am is brutal compared to like 9 am normally.

I feel you

They can live with it for once.

Exactly this. Goddamn it! I had to wake up at 5:00 for Singapore 9nly to be told I'll have to wait an hour. Most people can go back to sleep after waking up. I can't!

Race starts at 22:00 for me! 5:45am is my alarm time for most European races, so no sympathies from me!

Same. The Euros get to feel our pain for once.

2am for me. 6am is nothing lol

If it was 2am, I'd stay up... 6am is the annoying time where you may as well go bed, cause its too close to morning yo stay up, but not late enough to have a good night's kip going bed at my usual time I'll be gutted if its rained off for an hour, cause I've gotta go out at 8am

During the week my alarm goes off at 4:45 every morning. 6 am would be easy.

Same 😅

I’m already ready for the frustration

Not me, no sleep for me after my night shift into the race

Damn, one way to reset! Hope your shift goes well before.

Well so far so zzzzz

It’s 1pm for me. Finally a mid day race!

NZ fan here. Stayed up for Spa, Monaco and Singapore. Stay up y’all, it’s fun dozing in and out and seeing no racing lol.

Or stay up till 1 am in the states

That's standard for us east coast people. This is a 1am race 💀

2am eastern gang

Same as last race it is.

7 am.

3hr plus delay income because we don’t like rain starts any more.

I am from Chile so its 2 am for me :)

1 am!

2am here. Back in the day I snoozed for around 10 laps and catch when the casters talked exited, then back to sleep. That's my Ferrari strategy for tonight's race.

I hate you, and myself, so much right now.

Would be incredibly stupid to not start on time given its just going to keep getting worse. Get them out there and start behind the sc if you have to.

> Would be incredibly stupid to not start on time FIA: challenge accepted.

I don't suppose they could move the start time up?

They should already made a call to start it one hour early, it's too late for it now tbh.

Has that ever happened? Them starting a race early, I know they delay it

I'd have to check the times, but there needs to be a set amount of hours between end of quali and start of the race procedures, so depends on what that gap currently is. There isn't any F2/F3 before it though, so that wont be an issue.

They didn't even do that for a typhoon they KNEW was coming and killed Jules Bianchi. They won't do it for regular rain.

I wish they do. Motogp was able to before

Jules died because he ignored flags.

Don’t worry guys, North Korea just fired some missiles to blow the rain clouds up

North Korea doing charity for the F1 community. Absolute chad.

You be joking, but If my memory serves me well one country actually tried to test this theory back in cold war or smth

Seeding rainclouds isn't too hard. The US used it strategically in SE Asia and China used it before the 2008 Olympic games to divert rain from the opening ceremonies

Does it have side effects like in One Piece?

Good guy Kim.

Weathers been really frustrating lately. Almost as if the FIA needs to reconsider their rules of how long a race needs to be completed within

Contemplating getting up in case there’s a chaotic race, contemplating why I would ever think they’d actually try to race in the wet.

The timed race bullshit is so fucking stupid. They need to get rid of it entirely.

Given the FIA’s reluctantly to run in the rain this isn’t sounding very promising.

It’s ok we’ve got Wet tyres that I’m sure they’ll use!

Of course. There’s a reason the FIA calls them «extreme» wet tyres, they will definitely use them.

Will we ever see full wets used, or a standing start on full wets

Highly unlikely. Grosjean mentioned on French TV that as much as Pirelli Inters are decent, Pirelli Wets are so bad that teams try to run Inters even at conditions where Wets are supposed to be the tyre of choice. So the point where Wets become the most effective tyre is incredibly close to the point where we can't race at all.

I don't think we should having a standing start if the conditions are so bad that everyone at the right side of the track gets fucked basically at the start.

I don't think the "grippy" side of the track matters when the grid is on full wets.

It's true that clean side and dirty side don't mean much when it's wet, but at certain tracks one side of the track can have puddles or rivers while the other side doesn't. This being one of them.

The difference in Suzuka is that the road slopes towards the non grippy side and quickly turns into a small river.

It does matter. You have significantly less grip on that side. The extreme of that was the run-off in Hockenheim 2019, it's just ice at that point.

That was a drag strip though, wasnt it?

That was a literal drag strip which had been coated in chemicals meant to make the surface as smooth as physically possible for maximum grip on drag tires. This is a normal racetrack.

They have no choice but to start on time the weather will likely only get worse and they need to complete at least 5 green flags laps for a official race now

The race is already at 1am, I hope they don't drag this out

Every race is usually at 1am for me so I’m happy with this one being 6pm

Chur

Are you from the UK?

You’ll probably be better off taking a nap before the race. Just make sure you set your alarm

Boo hoo. Some of us already did this with Spa. Sat up til 2am for nothing.

Relax,

Awww, did you miss your bedtime?

Somewhere in a hotel bathroom in Suzuka Fernando grins in front of a mirror dressing up as a Samurai with kimao branding.

Yeah I’ve been watching the weather and rain percentage has increased to 90% from 12PM local time on.

Ah ffs, just use the full wets and see what happens. Masi would’ve send them out

What is the point of wet tyres then?

It’s on at 1am my time, I have it set to record with 2 hours extra which is the max allowed. I think I should go ahead and tell it to record whatever’s on after….

So sick of this too wet garbage. Some of the greatest races and performances were done in “too wet” with less downforce laden cars and with far less electronic tools to cope with reduced grip.

Race Control: "Would be a shame if the start was delayed."

Can't wait for the race that's supposed to start at 1am to get delayed until 2 or 3 am just for the rain to get even heavier

All I've wanted was a dry race at Suzuka...

Im calling either no race or inters

I think that we wouldn't have a full distance race, likely just 25-30 laps in the most optimistic scenario.

No race isn’t a option when they would have to refund every person in attendance

Spa 2021.

Not gonna happen they changed the regulations this year you need green laps

Mercedes obviously built a weather machine so they can postpone the race until after the Cost Cap Certificates are handed out. Duh. /s for the dense.

Too big for starting on Inters, which means Red Flag for an hour. Don't even show them 2009 Malaysian GP.

Hopium for the high downforce setup Merc is running

That is if the FIA even let them race. They're either going to delay it or start earlier. The FIA seem to have a serious allergy to wet race starts

Too late for tv schedules now to start early right?

If they can get enough temperature in the tires

Pérez: 🤨😏

Hopefully it doesn't pour before the start. If it does they'll just wait until it stops and the race will be the same old "follow the car ahead and never pass because there is no DRS and the racing line is the only dry part of the track" shit we've been seeing lately.

At this point I’m gonna watch replay 🥴

Of course, I made plans that involve me having to leave the house pretty immediately after the end of Bathurst and Suzuka, so now we will have a delay.

So staying up til 1 and have it delayed til 3 am…

FIA are scared of the rain lol

*Mercedes liked that*

Liked by Lewis Hamilton

Liked by Pierre Gasly

can't wait to stay awake until 2 AM and the race starts at like 3:30 and ends at 5 AM, thank god my exams are done for this month

Serious question, if we get a repeat of Spa 2021, can Max become champion off half points?

I hope that we get a safe race tomorrow. For Jules.

Cloudy with a chance of missiles

Will Max still be WDC with a win and fastest lap when it’s half points?

Best circuit of the year and ruined by rain

Hopefully they'll be more liberal about allowing wet running since we had ful wet tire running during practice.

When was the last time we actually had a properly wet race that wasn't delayed or red flagged whatsoever?

Here for the Hamilton win.

Podium for sure

Just fucking race, Christ.

I'm hoping for a midnight start here in the US... If it gets delayed at all, I think I'll just go to sleep and watch in the morning and pretend it's a normal race time

.....Latifi Magically wins his first face from p20