Soldato
You sir, were still initially incorrect.
Poll: Belgian Grand Prix 2021, Spa-Francorchamps - Race 12
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You sir, were still initially incorrect.
Soldato
In terms of grip and aquaplaning they could easily drive the cars, in theory.
The issue is with modern aero the water the tyres throw up creates so much spray visibility disappears. I watched that Suzuka race and the the spray, for the most part, wasn't as bad as even the laps to the grid today. Create better tyres means even more spray than now. So there's no point in creating better wet weather tyres as they wouldn't be able to race anyway.
The added problem today is the spray is lingering badly, like a thick mist, unlike even yesterday.
Caporegime
"The other risk from aquaplaning in Formula 1 car can happen when the car is literally lifted off the track by the barrier of water between the track and its underbody. Teams want to run plank as close to the ground as possible for aerodynamic reasons, and with such little ground clearance the risk of aquaplaning increases. In the wet conditions teams want to increase ride height even more to lessen the risk of plank aquaplaning. That's what is called "wet setup"."
Unlikely, not in a fully declared wet race where full wet setup is running higer ground clearance and less aero, than full dry setup.
Man of Honour
Russell really pushing for the 2 laps auto-classification 
A wet setup is regrind heightening thr car becoase of the much larger downforce they put the car under to drive the tyres through th water.
Caporegime
Do modern F1 cars run a higher ground clearance compare to old?
Caporegime
Keep digging that hole.
LOL, sure, I mean though floor's skimming water like boats at not even close to race load is what they are talking about.
Soldato
Fair enough. Of course commentating has some artistic licence.
Soldato
Perez can start the race
Don
Soldato
At any point where the underbody could physically hit standing water ... the tyres will already have been overwhelmed and already started aquaplaning. As Entai has said - it's never happened where the underbody aquaplaned first, and 85-99 was in the era before the plank where the entire underbody generated downforce by scraping the tarmac and had all sorts of technology like active suspension to help them do so...
Soldato
What's with the stupid 3 hour rule. Is this just going to turn into one big farce with zero racing.... would be typical of how badly F1 is run.
Caporegime
Said the guy claiming F1 and Rally were the same thing
I didn't say they were. I am saying that Rally drivers compete in far worse conditions and are at a much higher risk of injury. Just ask Robert Kubica.
Depends what you call old.
Pre underfloor plank, yes the cars ran much lower ride height.
Introduction of the plank automatically raised ride height compared to pre plank.
Even post plank years, ride heights vary a lot depending upon track, weather, car design all sorts.
Soldato
Wish for weather situations like this, cars could do a shortened time trial of say 5-10 laps of Spa, perhaps two cars at a time of ~1min apart.