Especially if the doctor is self-certified because he couldn’t pass an official exam to save his own life?

Rand is an ophthalmologist so that makes him an expert on every kind of medicine apparently. Isn’t that how it works?  If I have eye problems I go see the podiatrist.

Try being an Indy Car fan. Often the rain is more interesting.

He’s one of the few guys that knows there will be little to no repercussions from calling it like it is.

This. At this point there was no way to make it right, no way to postpone, no way to cancel without severely affecting Spa itself. If it hadn’t been the first race in a triple-header it would have been a different story altogether, I think, but even then postponing for today would have been a massive issue with…

HA! I’m even worse, I watched on my DVR and FFD at times thru it all listening and then FFD only to have to watch the rebroadcast because my DVR is “only” set to extend by 2hrs which at the 4hr mark is when the damn “race” was going to happen!! I was literally yelling at myself that I was an idiot for not jumping to…

My biggest concern with the refund approach is that I think the big loser will be Spa itself.  They had no fans last year, they would have to give money back now.  We hear every year that track funding is the reason we are losing Historic European events and gaining events in cash rich, heritage poor (and human rights…

Sometimes I think that Lewis Hamilton is the only thing even remotely likeable about Formula One.

No But Even F1 Tracks have operating restrictions set on them by local authorities

Sounds like you’re not a fan of F1 and should stop watching, which will be a good thing for everyone who has read your comments, because this might be the shittiest F1 take I have seen in years. Not hard to tell who the real “pampered twat” is here

Also worth noting: Martin Brundle said on the broadcast the he’d run several races in similar conditions - and wished he hadn’t. He mentioned one of those Suzuka races in particular. Said they were lucky to have avoided death or serious injury. Not worth it IMHO.

Drivers reported that visibility behind the lead car was nil due to spray from the tires and rear diffusers. Sainz and Ocon said they couldn’t even see the flashing red lights from cars ahead of him. That’s asking for a potentially tragic multi-car shunt if someone ahead loses control, which is only a matter of time…

Yes, F1 would’ve struggled to get the required trackside personnel to return on Monday. In order to postpone, they needed to be sure 100% that a race could take place on Monday, meaning they basically had to organize an entire Grand Prix within that three hour span yesterday. They couldn’t just wing it. Apart from the…

This is a fucking terrible opinion. They could barely keep the safety car on the roads so they should instead run a full-throttle race in a highly competitive season with two aggressive drivers in the top 3 who already locked horns this year? How the fuck do you think the race would end, especially given there was a…

NASCAR also doesn’t require nearly the same amount of track personnel needed to run an F1 race.

How do you know there is zero reason not to run the race tomorrow?

It’s not ground effect, it’s tyres! The wets pull up a huge amount of water and spray it backward. That’s one reason they try running these slow laps in the wet - having 80 wets tyres going over the track is the most effective way they have to dry it. But of course that makes for impossible visibility conditions...

In particular, it’s not just about grip levels - it’s also about sheer visibility. If you can’t see anything because of the spray off the car in front, it doesn’t matter how great a driver you are, you’re going to crash. We’ve all seen how that works in past!

The thing that canceled the race here was visibility, not traction. But yes, it seems like we’ve gotten to the point where modern cars pick up so much water with their ground effects that it’s rare you can have enough water on the track to need wets, yet not so much water that you can’t see.

well...that was fun