Formulation 1 drivers could should cope with moist begins to Saturday’s dash race and Sunday’s grand prix over the Miami Grand Prix weekend.
The Miami Worldwide Autodrome has hosted two grands prix over the past two years however has not skilled moist session in that point.
The second consecutive dash spherical on the 2024 calendar, Miami will once more see a dash race held within the early afternoon earlier than Sunday’s grand prix. Nonetheless, forecasts point out a danger that the monitor may very well be moist earlier than the beginning of each of these classes.
Friday is anticipated to have the bottom danger of rain of the weekend, which means drivers will take pleasure in a dry hour of apply in heat temperatures of just below 30C earlier than that night’s dash qualifying session.
Nonetheless, heading into Saturday, there’s a important danger of rain falling within the morning previous to the dash race beginning at noon. Whereas forecasts don’t count on rain throughout the dash race or the next grand prix qualifying session, there’s a likelihood that the monitor may nonetheless be drying from earlier rain when the lights exit. Nonetheless, with temperatures once more anticipated to be within the excessive 20s, any moisture ought to dry out comparatively rapidly.
The identical can also be the case for the grand prix on Sunday. The comparatively late begin time of 4pm (half an hour later than final 12 months) may effectively imply that the monitor is dry as soon as once more after earlier anticipated rain passes within the early afternoon. However ought to the rain come later than present forecast count on, the danger that the grand prix may very well be affected will enhance.
Ought to the race stay dry, then circumstances are prone to be nearly similar to these drivers skilled over the primary two Miami races in 2022 and 2023. Final 12 months’s race all 20 drivers operating a one-stop technique within the dry circumstances, with out a single retirement within the subject.
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