Early weather forecasts for the Belgian Grand Prix indicated the weekend could be very wet. The threat of rain has reduced since then but 24 hours before the start of practice there is still a chance of precipitation on all three days.
Foggy conditions greeted the Formula 1 teams on media day at the circuit this morning. The day is expected to end with a thunderstorm which will bring air temperatures down considerably. The chance of rain will linger into Friday, which is set to be cloudy and cool with temperatures reaching no more than 15C.The greatest risk of rain will come on Saturday. The morning is likely to begin wet with rain falling during the final hour of practice. The threat of rain will decrease during the rest of the day but with temperatures staying low, around 13C, qualifying may well begin on a wet track.
Conditions on Sunday are expected to be closer to Friday. The risk of rain will be lower, though not completely absent, and air temperatures will begin to rise again, though only reaching around 17C. This will be considerably cooler than recent Belgian Grands Prix: around 8C lower than last year, and 10C down on 2016.
Pirelli has nominated the medium, soft and super-soft compound tyres for this weekend’s race. Last year Lewis Hamilton won on a two-stop tyre strategy, starting on ultra-softs then running two stints on softs.
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Djangles LeVaughn (@royal-spark)
23rd August 2018, 11:21
The weather patterns in previous Grand Peix suggest that precipitation, moderate or heavier, can’t be bothered to show up during the actual race.
It’s usually long before or shortly after.
Jere (@jerejj)
23rd August 2018, 11:36
Concerning this particular venue, it’s best just to ignore the weather forecast(s) entirely.
Panagiotis Papatheodorou (@panagiotism-papatheodorou)
23rd August 2018, 12:06
Hopefully we will have the 2008 race a second time. Spa is a long track (7km) so it could be possible, I reckon, we had a rain in half the track and the other one is dry. That would certainly make things interesting in both the qualifying and race.
Joao (@johnmilk)
23rd August 2018, 12:17
Ferrari hospitality is already wet from Vettel’s sweat
MacLeod (@macleod)
23rd August 2018, 12:38
It will rain in Spa but in the hills expect the unexpected wet, drying, raining and so on.
David BR (@david-br)
23rd August 2018, 13:06
‘Promise of rain’ :O)
pastaman (@)
23rd August 2018, 13:18
Threat of rain at Spa? Stop the presses!
Archit (@architjain07)
23rd August 2018, 13:53
Lewis must be giggling already! More the chances or rain, more the probability of Lewis building up his Championship lead!
Panagiotis Papatheodorou (@panagiotism-papatheodorou)
23rd August 2018, 14:11
Never say never!
pking008 (@pking008)
23rd August 2018, 14:14
Lewis must be doing a rain dance while Vettel is sweating bucket-loads.
Chaitanya
23rd August 2018, 18:55
Hahaha, might we see a video of this..