Having A Hoot Watching F-1 Rain Racing

by Bruce Simmons:

I'm watching an F-1 race on Fox right now and it's raining on the track.  (Not being an F-1 guy at all, I think it's a replay of the British Grand Prix)

Some teams are trying to outlast the rain and not come in get "full-wets" tire sets, but in 2 laps we've seen a mess of spins and slides on this rain slicked road course as cars slide through grass, into the gravel traps and what not.  The gravel traps seem to be a one way route to being hopelessly trapped and out of the race.

In one shot you can see the massive speed difference between a car with full-wets and one that had not come in yet and the announcers are going nuts wondering why some of the teams haven't brought their teams in.

This is FUN!  Yea...  NASCAR needs rain tires.