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Very impressive lap by Webber - but it is anyones race tomorrow.
Malaysian Grand Prix 2010, Sepang - Race 3/19
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In typical Webber fasion he will get a crap start and then pile into Rosberg into T1So with Webber on pole - he's going to have to work hard to crash into anyone. Although he may chop someone off the track at the start.
I love a good curveball..
And I don't understand you lot.. why move this race out of the rainy season.. this has made an awesome race setup.
Because it's going to happen again tomorrow and they're going to spend a chunk behind the safety car or even red flag the race...
Same as last year.
They know it's going to happen - but don't do anything about it!
They couldn't even follow the SC so it doesn't matter what speed they go. The cars can not handle large amounts of water and you will have yellow flags and Sc at any speed.
Has he ever been outqualified 3 races on the trot?
Funny how his wet weather pace has all but dissapeared in what some call the leveller of ability.
He's doing nowhere near as bad as the media want to make out but if he's not consistently ahead of rosberg by 3/4s of the season he needs to consider his options.
other than changing track or time, teams aren't going to design a wet race car and be 24th on 17 out of 19 races.
Exactly this race would be over in minutes if today carries on into tommorow. Which looking at the forecast it will. I used to love it when this happened and it mixed things up but back then they used to continue racing.
Its no longer worth a gamble on a full wet set up because if it's a full wet set up the race will be stopped.
They need to run it earlier in the day - yes it'll be on at 5am in the uk, but the race won't be trashed by safety cars or red flags.
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boo - no drivers conference
This is not the case, at other tracks a full wet race would continue, the difference is this is rainy season in that part of the world. You get huge amounts of water unlike full wet races in most other countries.
That I agree on, or move it latter in the season.
As I just said they wont gamble with a full wet set up because the race will be behind a safety car. It wouldn't be worth taking the risk with a full wet set up today to take advantage tommorow because no one will run when it rains.
It will be interesting to see if thats the case when it rains heavily anywhere else. Somehow I can't see them continuing. Say Spa. It still wouldn't be worth the full wet set up because they would bring the SC out until it dried a bit losing any advantage from the risk.
As shown in q1 and q2 it is only stopped if you get enough standing water. At that point the cars start aquaplaning regardless of speed. At the point they can't even follow a SC there is no point continuing. Normal prolonged rain at nearly any other circuit would continue.
These also are not the cars from 1996, far more reliance on aero grip which is not generated at low speed. Less driver aids and so on.
It will be a bitter pill for Vettel to swallow if Webber manages a win after leading the last two races and only ending up with a handfull of points. Hopefully it will atleast be dryer for the start so we dont get a safety car start. 
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