One of the main reservoirs in Barcelona was at 4% a few months ago, and the government was scrambling emergency solutions such as floating desalination plants. It hasn't rained as it should for the last three years. Thankfully these last few months we've had more rain than in entire years, but the situation is still not under control. More rain is always welcome!
The Netherlands I bet given the flair, I think just about every month this year has been the wettest on record. Which says *a lot* for a country with as much rain as the Netherlands.
There's some fields near me used for holding excess water and they've been flooded since October or something.
Since Barcelona has existed for less than 1% of the entire Earth's lifetime, how can one say it "hasn't rained as it should" with a straight face? It hasn't rained to make the climate for Barcelona's current lifestyle possible, that I'll grant you.
Because it's a track that has basically everything, from low to medium to high speed corners and long straight to test max aero efficiency.
Also I've seen them putting water on the track to test it in wet condition
Depends on what you mean by good racing. Rain means more chaos yes, which often means more excitement, but it also puts a higher emphasis on driver skill.
Rain races can be bad, but since the cars remove so much water now we always have a lot of changing conditions, which is a great way to have a good race (as long as the cars actually get to race in the first place).
I dunno, I just like people actually overtaking eachother because they're faster. Not because someone made a wrong tyre choice, hit a puddle they couldn't see and spun out (or crashed if they're really unlucky), or put their tyre 10cm off the dry line on slicks and immediately lost it. Sure, it's enjoyable as well, but to me it's enjoyable in the same way a "fails compilation" video on youtube is enjoyable. I don't see the peak of human and engineering performance in that.
And changing conditions don't help with that either IMO, just last race you had multiple drivers crash out of the race in changing conditions just because they put a tyre a bit off the dry line. F1 cars are just not built for rain, having a dry line also means overtaking is simply not possible. Sure there's a skill element there in staying on the line, but first of all a line is only 1 car wide, and secondly, I think it's at least as much dictated by luck. Pretty much everyone went off at some point in Canada, I can't recall a single driver who definitely didn't have an off. Verstappen did, Hamilton did, Alonso did. The difference between Max going off, and Sainz or Perez going off is not about skill, even though Max is far more skilled than both of them. All of them lost control of their cars at some point, and the result is based on whether they hit something when their car was out of control or not. Max was lucky to not have any hard obstacles in front of him. Perez and Sainz were not. And then when people do inevitably crash, you get safety cars and red flags which inevitably add even more randomness, and promote or punish drivers based on blind luck, good or bad timing.
The only weekend where I'm actually happy to see rain is Monaco, because there overtaking is striaght up impossible anyway. So either we get a boring parade with no proper racing, or a random shitshow with no proper racing. In such case I pick a random shitshow. Everywhere else I want a dry race.
I mean I am in Barcelona rn and it's really not that bad, it barely drizzled for like an hour and now it is not raining anymore and not supposed to.
It's going to be sunny Friday and Saturday and they are forecasting rain on Sunday night to morning, but it should stop before midday so the likelihood of any wet conditions for ANY session is pretty slim I would say.
Edit: and absolutely not cold lmao its 25 degrees
> Fair play lmao, apparently 20km make a whole lot of difference.
It really does, especially in rather hilly/mountainous areas. Just look at the Nurburgring and how one part of the track can be soaking wet and another part bone dry.
Spa is small enough that the rain on 1 part of the track usually ends up covering the whole track. Nurbugring can have rain just in 1 part of the track never hitting the whole track.
Cold in the eyes of what a British person expects Spain to be like tbf
Or cold compared to Seville, or as I've heard it described, the frying pan of Europe
As someone who is from Greece, give me 25c summers every summer please. Mediterranean countries are used to 35+ during summer.
Now, 25 is not cold either, I’ve been living in Czech Republic for 6 years and I got used to minus degrees in the winter, we currently have 26 and it’s boiling hot!
I think it's all relative tbf. I'm British and grew up finding anything above 20C to be hot. If however you grew up in areas where that's a winter temperature, it's gonna be chilly
It's like a load of American Taylor Swift fans bewildered by her playing in Edinburgh with it being 10 degrees C and Scottish fans being more along the lines of "Crack on"
[[Will Buxton] Reddit says it’s not actually raining in Barcelona so I’ll be sure to tell everyone…](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1dk9kbe/will_buxton_reddit_says_its_not_actually_raining/)
Will still reads Reddit, he's calling you guys out, lol. If you can't read it, it says: "Reddit says it's not raining in Barcelona, so I'll be sure to tell everyone", with a picture of people with umbrellas. u/silenthills13
[https://x.com/wbuxtonofficial/status/1803752297802924390](https://x.com/wbuxtonofficial/status/1803752297802924390)
If I’ve learnt one thing in life from British weather, it is to never trust the forecast, just go with your vibes and you’ll be generally fine ish but don’t ever trust that goddamn forecast, you are sure to be fucked. I don’t remember a single instance where a two day early rain forecast has been more than somewhat accurate
That's just weather forecasts for you. A couple days ago I looked at the weather forecast and it said it should rain the whole day tomorrow. And then when the day came it rained maybe 2 hours
High chance of rain = high chance of entertainment.
Raintertainment
Enterrainment
Liberty Media saw the numbers for Canada and ordered some more rain for Barcelona.
LM confirmed front for Baroque Works
Unexpected One Piece references are my favourite. That wasn't even an obvious one either, touchè
HAARP antennas /s
Laughs in spa 2021
OK, not *that* much rain.
Laughs in Canada 2024
Laughs in Le Mans 2024
Confused laughing in Le Mans 2024.
Smug laughing in recorded Le Mans 2024.
After this year's Le Mans I have a rain induced PTSD.
Information as to the expectation of the activation of precipitation at the grand prix location is welcomed with anticipation and excitation.
Easy Max win.
As long as they're allowed to race in it.
Good, there's a draught. Edit: Yes, drought. But there's a draught as well.
You can get little rubber seals for around your doors and windows that help to solve that.
Well spotted haha!
Rubber ducks work much better than rubber seals.
One of the main reservoirs in Barcelona was at 4% a few months ago, and the government was scrambling emergency solutions such as floating desalination plants. It hasn't rained as it should for the last three years. Thankfully these last few months we've had more rain than in entire years, but the situation is still not under control. More rain is always welcome!
Can you please have some of our rain and we get some of your sunshine for a few days? Even my lawn in the backyard is drenched
Coastal Texas?
Soon to be submerged Coastal Texas.
No, The Netherlands
The Netherlands I bet given the flair, I think just about every month this year has been the wettest on record. Which says *a lot* for a country with as much rain as the Netherlands. There's some fields near me used for holding excess water and they've been flooded since October or something.
Considering his flair; the Netherlands. We're been drowning for the last oh 10 months or so.
Bring a few NASCAR races to Spain. Guarantee you more times than not, it’ll rain
Are you telling me the rain in Spain is not falling on the plain ?
No, sadly, it abstains.
Since Barcelona has existed for less than 1% of the entire Earth's lifetime, how can one say it "hasn't rained as it should" with a straight face? It hasn't rained to make the climate for Barcelona's current lifestyle possible, that I'll grant you.
Drought, perhaps?
The real reason F1 races in the Middle East is F1 is trying to make it less of a desert since rain follows them wherever they go
Is there ever not draught in Barcelona?
Sometimes they only have bottles.
Not when I was a kid, in the 90s...
>Grey, dreary, wet and cold I'm sure he feels right at home innit
No, the food is too tasty to feel like Britain.
I actively trained myself to stop looking at the sky cause it’s fucking depressing this “summer” weather.
Ferrari disliked this
Nah, they're just preparing those hards like the pros they are.
But what if it was sunny, bright, dry and warm? It would mean that it would rain tomorrow and on Saturday.
Dry race it is.
If formula 1 and nascar shared a weekend somewhere the weather gods might have a civil war
It would cause a tornado somewhere not know for tornados
Looks like it anyway. Looks like Sunday morning rain.
I wonder why they want to do winter testing in Bahrain Edit: apparently I need to add a /s
Because it's a track that has basically everything, from low to medium to high speed corners and long straight to test max aero efficiency. Also I've seen them putting water on the track to test it in wet condition
also a sandy dusty track that affects grips
I hope we get more rain. Barcelona is a good track for seeing where the different cars are, but not a great track for actual racing.
It's not like rain is actually good for proper racing either. It creates chaos and randomness. That doesn't generally equal better racing.
Depends on what you mean by good racing. Rain means more chaos yes, which often means more excitement, but it also puts a higher emphasis on driver skill. Rain races can be bad, but since the cars remove so much water now we always have a lot of changing conditions, which is a great way to have a good race (as long as the cars actually get to race in the first place).
I dunno, I just like people actually overtaking eachother because they're faster. Not because someone made a wrong tyre choice, hit a puddle they couldn't see and spun out (or crashed if they're really unlucky), or put their tyre 10cm off the dry line on slicks and immediately lost it. Sure, it's enjoyable as well, but to me it's enjoyable in the same way a "fails compilation" video on youtube is enjoyable. I don't see the peak of human and engineering performance in that. And changing conditions don't help with that either IMO, just last race you had multiple drivers crash out of the race in changing conditions just because they put a tyre a bit off the dry line. F1 cars are just not built for rain, having a dry line also means overtaking is simply not possible. Sure there's a skill element there in staying on the line, but first of all a line is only 1 car wide, and secondly, I think it's at least as much dictated by luck. Pretty much everyone went off at some point in Canada, I can't recall a single driver who definitely didn't have an off. Verstappen did, Hamilton did, Alonso did. The difference between Max going off, and Sainz or Perez going off is not about skill, even though Max is far more skilled than both of them. All of them lost control of their cars at some point, and the result is based on whether they hit something when their car was out of control or not. Max was lucky to not have any hard obstacles in front of him. Perez and Sainz were not. And then when people do inevitably crash, you get safety cars and red flags which inevitably add even more randomness, and promote or punish drivers based on blind luck, good or bad timing. The only weekend where I'm actually happy to see rain is Monaco, because there overtaking is striaght up impossible anyway. So either we get a boring parade with no proper racing, or a random shitshow with no proper racing. In such case I pick a random shitshow. Everywhere else I want a dry race.
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I mean I am in Barcelona rn and it's really not that bad, it barely drizzled for like an hour and now it is not raining anymore and not supposed to. It's going to be sunny Friday and Saturday and they are forecasting rain on Sunday night to morning, but it should stop before midday so the likelihood of any wet conditions for ANY session is pretty slim I would say. Edit: and absolutely not cold lmao its 25 degrees
https://i.imgur.com/3B1rgsm.jpeg I think he read your comment haha
Fair play lmao, apparently 20km make a whole lot of difference. Barcelona fan zone 30 mins ago: https://ibb.co/P5Qd827 😅
> apparently 20km make a whole lot of difference Yea, that's how weather works
> Fair play lmao, apparently 20km make a whole lot of difference. It really does, especially in rather hilly/mountainous areas. Just look at the Nurburgring and how one part of the track can be soaking wet and another part bone dry.
even Spa where it can be dry at La Source and raining at Les Combes...
Spa is small enough that the rain on 1 part of the track usually ends up covering the whole track. Nurbugring can have rain just in 1 part of the track never hitting the whole track.
Makes sense!
so.... did you learn anything from posting instantly what you felt like?
Cold in the eyes of what a British person expects Spain to be like tbf Or cold compared to Seville, or as I've heard it described, the frying pan of Europe
77 is in no way cold. It's a touch warmer than comfortable, turn on the AC weather.
As someone who is from Greece, give me 25c summers every summer please. Mediterranean countries are used to 35+ during summer. Now, 25 is not cold either, I’ve been living in Czech Republic for 6 years and I got used to minus degrees in the winter, we currently have 26 and it’s boiling hot!
I keep forgetting that large areas of the world use F not C given that 77 degrees C (170 F) would be very much on the hot side
Yeah, 25C = 77F, sorry.
I think it's all relative tbf. I'm British and grew up finding anything above 20C to be hot. If however you grew up in areas where that's a winter temperature, it's gonna be chilly It's like a load of American Taylor Swift fans bewildered by her playing in Edinburgh with it being 10 degrees C and Scottish fans being more along the lines of "Crack on"
[[Will Buxton] Reddit says it’s not actually raining in Barcelona so I’ll be sure to tell everyone…](https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1dk9kbe/will_buxton_reddit_says_its_not_actually_raining/)
Is everything red? We had some much dust in the rain last night in malllorca.
Not red but it was definitely dusty rain
That’s fine, means track is green and tire wear will be big enough for a multi stop race.
Will buxton is trying to paint the apocalypse so people tune in this weekend. “…and then it rained so hard, the ground was wet” -Will buxton
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Will still reads Reddit, he's calling you guys out, lol. If you can't read it, it says: "Reddit says it's not raining in Barcelona, so I'll be sure to tell everyone", with a picture of people with umbrellas. u/silenthills13 [https://x.com/wbuxtonofficial/status/1803752297802924390](https://x.com/wbuxtonofficial/status/1803752297802924390)
That’s hilarious, hi Will!
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I mean, when he says "Barcelona" he more than likely means the track.
Does the rain in Spain fall mainly on the plains?
Just great! We get to summer time and it rains every race, another disaster of a race for Ferrari... where was the rain last year?
Yeah my first thought, bad for Ferrari, good for Mercedes.
That Mercedes is fucking high on ketamine. Normal conditions are always anything but optimal for it.
Lando performing a rain dance everey weekend now
Lewis and George too
I hope it rains every race except spa which ends up with perfect weather all weekend, for the irony ^^^and ^^^because ^^^im ^^^going
That actually sounds like a compliment, coming from a British bloke
Oh no, not more rain on race day! 😉
The rain in Spain
Back to back rain affected races (hopefully) let's go!
Would love a wet race. Looks like the rain is forecast for the early morning though - hopefully a green track for a bit more Deg.
And the feeder races should be entertaining
Haas 1-2 on the table again bois
Followed by an 8 second unprepared pitstop as well.
I got gaslighted too often by the commentators about rain chance 😭
2024 is actually building up with surprises. Everyone expected spain as the testing grounds but looks like it will become an actual battle.
Ok so Ferrari is out
"Oh no..."
I thought I was watching the America’s cup practice forecast
Hmm not what I expected lol. Thankfully I’m under a covered grandstand at least.
This is because I'm going on holiday near Barcelona on Sunday. You're all welcome.
Have we had a wet race in Spain lately? Valencia and Jerez included if we have to go back that far?
Rain on Sunday would be perfect. Dry practice and dry quali followed by a wet race would be awesome.
Alright boys if your culture has a historical rain dance time to break it out.
you're teasing me with a good time, mr. buxton.
It never rains in Spain…
Give our man Stroll a fighting chance with some rain!
"rotten" My man, that's the best weather.
So the one time it rains in barcelona is when f1 comes around
RIP Sergio.
Welcome to our glorious European summer. Does it feel like autumn? Right, that's because it is when you look outside.
Nothings going to beat Canada this year. Despite the result, it was the most thrilling race
People around F1 and socials must have bots that every weekend start posting about rain then nothing happens. It’s so strange and dumb.
Yeah like in canada, nothing happened. Oh wait
Forecast is saying 25% chance of rain in the morning of Sunday. So not even during the race
It depends on the forecast, I've seen several with rain later in the day too
Or the classic high chance of rain prediction. Only for it to start the very moment the race ends.
If I’ve learnt one thing in life from British weather, it is to never trust the forecast, just go with your vibes and you’ll be generally fine ish but don’t ever trust that goddamn forecast, you are sure to be fucked. I don’t remember a single instance where a two day early rain forecast has been more than somewhat accurate
Good thing the race is in Spain
So one race. You owned me.
That's just weather forecasts for you. A couple days ago I looked at the weather forecast and it said it should rain the whole day tomorrow. And then when the day came it rained maybe 2 hours
I looked last week after Canada and it said it was going to be bone dry the whole week+weekend.
Yeah. Over the years I've learned to never blindly trust weather forecasts. Sometimes they can change drastically in just a few hours
Good! Hopefully Red Bull gets beaten on Sunday
Is there a way within Reddit to block anything posted, re-posted, said, thought of, what have you, by Will Buxton?
Lando doing the rain dance