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Rain would be absurd

I hope they brought wet weather tyres with them.

They're handing out rain-macs to photographers in the media centre

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

The 2004 race had a sprinkle of rain as well. If I remember correctly there was also a small shower before the race.

Weather gods not happy about the racing taking place obviously. But I don't mind :P

This could be one hell of a weird grand prix for a lot of reasons.

Caterham twitter

As predicted has just started raining and quite heavy with some thunder about

Correct.

http://yfrog.com/o0c2ttdj

It also rained in Qatar in 2010 for the MotoGP opener. I guess they only get a few days of rain a year, but it has to fall at some point!

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

It'll probably have stopped racing when the race starts. I can't imagine it raining for 2 hours.

All reports suggest that it's thundery rain, and it's not going to do that for 2 hours.

It might however, stop for a while and then return sometime during the race...

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Either way, it's going to affect track conditions. I read that rain makes it dustier (who knew?) so we could have reduced grip.

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

back to dry for now.

I doubt if the drivers would have even stopped for different tyres.

I'd imagine depending on how much it rains, the water mixed with the dust could make a sort of slush

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Does anyone have a stream? I dont have skysports

next we'll have snow.

I think the crucial aspect is track temperature. It's so, so important this year - three of four degrees changes the nature of the race.

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

What time does the race start? F1 website says in 10 minutes, Sky says in an hour and 10.

1h10 minutes.

I see Bernie is still in Bahrain, guess he decided it might be a good idea to stay.

it looks brown-ish, the sort of Iraq-war-gone-wrong background.