The Montreal circuit is not the best at draining off water even though it's on an island, I don't really see how, unless you can work miracles, anything can really be done, Let's face it there was standing water about 50mm deep in places and no-one in any formula can race in those condirions, it was just a downpour. I've been on a motorway in rain like that and all the traffic came to a standstill, we waited until it stopped and moved on. it's just the way God likes it sometimes ! All this talk of higher ground clearance will not work, there is simply too much water on the track, the only safe thing to do is 'stop the race'. I thought it made a very wet British Sunday much more exciting, only major issue was, made the roast lunch a bit later. Brilliant drive by Button after he knocked his mate off.
I don't think much could be done about yesterday, it suddenly came down so thick and fast I doubt the tyres would've been able to cope with the depth of it, I didn't like it starting behind the safety car though, spoiled the race a bit for me.
I know the resulting race was enjoyable. It has to a large extent taken the attention away from the farce of it all. If the restatted race had been a dull procession then i feel we would be talking much more about the 2 hour red flag.
I'm sure some of the lower teams would try it if the races weren't red flagged as soon as it rains. Solution: They should have an elephant in each sector, get them to suck up the standing water and spray it over Eddie Jordan.
Anyone remember this? Absolute classic, that river at turn 3 was brilliant, I loved it when Schumi aquaplaned. You can't beat a bit standing water.
How about leave it as it is, and send the drivers around anyway. Sod health and safety. If it were touring cars, the race would have gone ahead anyway.
To be fair, touring cars are a little different! The speeds are lower and the ride heights higher. Also, the drivers have windscreen wipers. I don't think even in my car I would have been wanting to drive through those puddles at 100mph in places, it wasn't safe.
Wasn't wet weather driving fine around 2000, when Spa always had rain, and the races were spectacular for a fan? What did they have then that they don't have now, apart from KERS, DRS, Pirelli tyres, full tanks and ridiculous wings?
That's not fair, Jenson is a semi pro triathlete, and Alonso with his extra 6 tenths. Yet vettel could still win, by a finger...
