A little damp at the WEC CotA race

[Matt Harper]

http://www.motorsport.com/wec/video/main-gallery/2...

[zac510]

Yikes! Correct decision to red flag it then.

[thatdude]

Blimey - how long were they running in those conditions? Very lucky to not have serious damage and serious injuries from any possible incident from so many out-of-control cars

[Great Dane]

It was just a tad damp

[Blib]

thatdude said:

Blimey - how long were they running in those conditions? Very lucky to not have serious damage and serious injuries from any possible incident from so many out-of-control cars

It took roughly a lap and a half for conditions to change from "drizzle at one corner" to "rainaggeddon". Though, the commentators were talking about the coming rain at least twenty minutes before it hit.

The Audis called it just in time and came in. The Toyotas stayed out and it cost them the race. Ant. Davidson was not a happy bunny.

There were some other shenanigans. One of the Toyotas go stuck in the gravel trap and had to be recovered under red. It was classified a lap down at the restart. Mike Conway managed to get his Toyota back to the pits unaided. His car was then classified as TWO LAPS down. Even though he had got back under his own steam.

Weird.

Edited by Blib on Tuesday 23 September 09:33

[Dr JonboyG]

It is odd that most of the teams all got caught out so badly; you could see on a weather radar app that there was rain coming our way. Then again those that did make the rapid call to bring it into the pits for wets got screwed by the red flag and all lost 1-2 laps.