It has been a wet night in Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n
The F1 circus left the Interlagos track late on Friday expecting bad weather on Saturday, and those who then attended the open-air Eminem concert got very wet.<\/p>\n
With Red Bull apparently dominant in the dry, the team’s championship rivals were looking forward to Saturday’s likely inclement conditions.<\/p>\n
“Yes, we need rain,” confirmed McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton.\u00a0 “In terms of pure pace in the dry we can’t really compete with the Red Bulls.”<\/p>\n
His teammate Jenson Button added: “I think they are not as strong in the wet as they are in the dry.”<\/p>\n
Michael Schumacher told Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport that he is not worried about the forecast, despite aquaplaning and drainage proving a problem at Interlagos in the past.<\/p>\n
“You have to say that the track has improved significantly,” he said.<\/p>\n
Indeed, Interlagos has improved its drainage since last year’s qualifying washout, with ‘grooves’ having been cut into the track surface to better direct the water flow.<\/p>\n
“It’s always a bit of a lottery when it rains, and not really welcome if you’re fighting for the championship,” said Schumacher. It has been a wet night in Sao Paulo. The F1 circus left the Interlagos track late on Friday expecting bad weather on Saturday, and those who then attended the open-air Eminem concert got very wet. With Red Bull apparently dominant in the dry, the team’s championship rivals were looking forward to Saturday’s likely inclement …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[2059,5262,5340,5342,5343],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9418,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions\/9418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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