Japanese Grand Prix 2014, Suzuka - Race 15/19

413x · 4 Oct 2014 at 15:59

Yeah its crazy.
Have they thought the following..

Move it and it never materializes
Vs
Don't move it and get what's predicted

Moving it for no reason or moving it and it gets there early is probably worse than not moving it

If they were confident with the forecast is stupid

Cavallino · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:08

Wth is actually going on....

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116165

So if both McLaren and RB have denied seeking Alonso... where else does that leave? Leave F1?

Glaucus · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:15

Here she is, taken 10:55 this morning local time.
Sustained winds off 127mph.

However BBC weather saying chance of a wash out is reducing, will still be wet though.

Skeeter · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:21

Yeah... I think I'm gonna go turn my alarm off...

Glaucus · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:22

Skeeter said:
Yeah... I think I'm gonna go turn my alarm off...

I edited, BBC weather saying chance of wash out is reducing, will still be wet.

Skeeter · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:25

Glaucus said:
I edited, BBC weather saying chance of wash out is reducing, will still be wet.

From 100% to 99.9%?

el_dazza · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:35

Accuweather is saying between 11am and 3pm wind speed will be 70-80km/h gusting to 110 and heavy rain with the exception of 1pm.. hope?

Slam62 · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:37

Just looked at the rainfall radar and my guess is it will be gone by race time, unless of course a load more rain developes and I know nothing about weather forecasting.

Skeeter · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:38

el_dazza said:
Accuweather is saying between 11am and 3pm wind speed will be 70-80km/h gusting to 110 and heavy rain with the exception of 1pm.. hope?

The race starts at 3pm local time.

Slam62 · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:47

Oh sorry

Slam62 · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:58

el_dazza · 4 Oct 2014 at 18:19

Skeeter said:
The race starts at 3pm local time.

Just testing..

Vertigo · 4 Oct 2014 at 18:37

So is there zero chance of the race being brought forward? Don't want to get up at 6 only to find the race is underway!

anything-but · 4 Oct 2014 at 18:47

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/850hPa/orthographic=-223.87,25.67,990

*Real* time wind map,using GFS data approx 2hrs old, i`d go with a washout from this.

Skeeter · 4 Oct 2014 at 19:00

Vertigo1 said:
So is there zero chance of the race being brought forward? Don't want to get up at 6 only to find the race is underway!

From what they were saying about the regulations, yeah. The teams need advanced notice and that time has passed.

englishpremier · 4 Oct 2014 at 19:06

CaptainRAVE said:
Could they race on Monday instead?

They've done this in MotoGP before, but F1 isn't as flexible when it comes moving to the race.

In this particular case it wouldn't help much though.

413x · 4 Oct 2014 at 19:15

I'll set my alarm for 10 mins before race
Pop iplayer on my phone
See deluge
Go to sleep

Twirlywoos · 4 Oct 2014 at 19:18

Gutted because I love this track. Oh well atleast Sochi is a week later. I hope the teams make it out safe and sound.

leaskovski · 4 Oct 2014 at 20:19

Thread is now weather thread. Awesome.

MagicBoy · 4 Oct 2014 at 20:33

leaskovski said:
Thread is now weather thread. Awesome.

What else shall we discuss? The drivers thing is covered in another thread, and with this weather there likely won't be a race.

How about the price of sushi at the track?