In 1965 at Sebring, during the race, it flooded. The MG’s were putting it on the Ferrari’s Fords, and Jim Hall’s Chaparall. While Jim won overall, during the rain, the Trimumps and MG’s reigned supreme. Nicki Lauda dropped out of the 1985 Japanese Grand Prix but the race went on and determined the World Champion that year. Enjoyed watching Michael Schumacher winning in the rain in 1997, showing everyone the correct rain line while embarrassing the fleet. Heck, Even NASCAR, raced at the Circuit of the America’s in one heck of a rainstorm and all NASCAR vehicles headed for road tracks now have windshield wipers. 2021 Formula I?
Thousands of fans, pay their money, show up in their raincoats and holding their umbrellas and what spectacle do they get to see, louis hamilton putting his hair up in a ponytail. The fans deserved a race, maybe later in the day or a day late race but a race.
Jim Clark detested Spa, but he won the thing four times, twice in the rain on a track that was then far more dangerous and having a surface much poorer than todays’ perfection of paving. And, he was driving a gasoline filled aluminum can. Not like today’s carbon fiber safety cells. Now, I am very much in favor of the safety built into todays race vehicles, But as they say, the babies must not be forced to do anything that might cause them the slightest discomfort.