F1 weather watchers can always look forward to some of the most interesting and unpredictable conditions of the season at the Brazilian Grand Prix. It looks like this year will not disappoint.
Aside from the opening laps of the Malaysian Grand Prix all the race action this year has taken place on dry-weather tyres and the wets haven’t been used in a race all year long. That may change on Sunday.
Hot temperatures will greet teams at the track for the pre-weekend activities today. But after basking in 30C-plus warmth on Thursday the mercury will fall by around ten degrees on Friday and remain around that level.
Thunderstorms on Thursday afternoon will herald a change to cloudier conditions and occasional showers lasting throughout the rest of the race weekend. Saturday will be the coolest of the three days, with temperatures potentially not making it past 20C.
As always the forecast for the region around the track is prone to changing at short notice. There will be regular updates on the track conditions during each session on F1 Fanatic Live and the F1 Fanatic Twitter account.
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Sam (@)
21st November 2013, 11:42
Good. Malaysia was quite a good race despite all post-race attention for Multi-21. It equals the playing field a bit and I believe Interlagos could become the best race of the season.
Nick (@nick101)
21st November 2013, 13:05
Wet weather?
Well that’s Hamilton buggered! Who wants to take a bet that if the race requires changing tires that Hamilton will make the wrong call?
Todd (@braketurnaccelerate)
21st November 2013, 11:57
There hasn’t been enough wet weather racing this season. Game on!
Sam (@)
21st November 2013, 12:08
Let’s hope they don’t go crying all about for red flags…
William (@william)
21st November 2013, 12:00
Planet F1 are saying that will be light rain on Saturday while Sunday will be very heavy rain increasing throughout the race
Tomsk (@tomsk)
21st November 2013, 12:01
Pirelli have brought some development tyres for the teams to try – so it will rain on Friday morning.
William (@william)
21st November 2013, 12:02
Which is another dumb thing by Pirelli as they can’t get a single thing right
Dave (@)
21st November 2013, 15:11
If the teams and the FIA won’t consent to testing, how is that Pirelli’s fault?
Patrick (@paeschli)
21st November 2013, 17:29
“Hey, we’ve got some development tyres. Let’s give it to the teams at Interlagos, where it always rains!”
Genius …
Oli Littlejohn (@olilittlejohn)
21st November 2013, 22:53
would you rather they did it while the championship was still going on?
Retired (@jeff1s)
21st November 2013, 12:06
Rain threatening Vettel’s record
petebaldwin (@)
21st November 2013, 12:24
That Red Bull is so much faster than the rest, I would still expect Vettel to win comfortably if it rains. It might shake the order behind him a bit though so fingers crossed.
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
21st November 2013, 16:31
Vettel’s got a good record in the wet, and the early qualifying sessions show the Red Bull is equally good when the rains come down. Sorry.
Retired (@jeff1s)
21st November 2013, 19:35
Don’t be sorry @vettel1. I saw the weltmeister becoming a rainmaster in Brazil 2012, sure he can do it again.
Max Jacobson (@vettel1)
21st November 2013, 19:49
The sorry was mainly with respect to the disappointment you might have @jeff1s :P
Chad (@chaddy)
21st November 2013, 23:40
Rain may add to Vettel’s advantages, but it surely increases variability as well. And I think he had enough consistency in the dry, that the increased variation (even with a better expected result) makes him worse off.
Was it Di Resta last year who took out an unsuspecting Hamilton? You can’t plan for that sort of driving.
Neil
22nd November 2013, 5:28
Hulkenberg – Backmarkers got in the way, Hulk was trying to pass, lost the back end and started to spin, whacked Hamilton.
Shame really, as either could have won.
Dave
21st November 2013, 12:07
So basically we can expect a nice dry Brazilian Grand Prix!
sato113 (@sato113)
21st November 2013, 19:29
this
Oople
21st November 2013, 12:08
If the threat of rain is real, I’m seriously putting a Hulkenberg Podium up there!
William (@william)
21st November 2013, 12:32
I think we will see a rare Caterham or Marussia in the top 10. I predict it to be a red flag with SC periods just like Malaysia 2012
JerseyF1 (@jerseyf1)
21st November 2013, 13:59
@william – think or hope?
Neiana (@neiana)
21st November 2013, 18:46
@Jerseyf1 Considering the Marussias and Caterhams folly seems to be in the aero department (based on watching them have exactly the same speed in the straights and I can’t imagine them not having decent steering), I would consider a fully wet race the prime time for exactly this.
Neiana (@neiana)
21st November 2013, 18:48
I’m living in a different world today…
They can run the same speed alongside even Red Bull but in the corner they don’t have the downforce. In the rain this issue will be lessened considerably.
Deej92 (@deej92)
21st November 2013, 12:50
Interlagos is such a good track, and the completely unpredictable weather that it can produce can make absolute classics like 2008 and 2012. Autosport reported Abu Dhabi could be 2014’s season finale, which would be disappointing, as Interlagos holds the perfect season finale for me.
And say it doesn’t rain, will it be the first time in F1 history that a season hasn’t seen the wet tyres used?
William (@william)
21st November 2013, 13:06
I reckon that is highly unlikely. You mean in the race as it was extremely heavy back in Australia
Deej92 (@deej92)
21st November 2013, 13:36
Yeah, just the races I meant.
Imre (@f1mre)
21st November 2013, 13:39
Intermediates were used in Malaysia.
Deej92 (@deej92)
21st November 2013, 14:06
The full wets weren’t though.
KaIIe (@kaiie)
21st November 2013, 17:45
Not the first time, at least the 1986 and 1987 seasons saw no running of wet tyres in the races.
Imre (@f1mre)
21st November 2013, 13:38
Rain threatening boredom.
NickF12013 (@nickf12013)
21st November 2013, 13:58
Brazil + Rain + Competitive Sauber + Hulkenberg = EPIC WIN
JackySteeg (@jackysteeg)
21st November 2013, 14:17
I would still bet money that it’s going to be a fully dry race.
Neil
21st November 2013, 14:57
Could be totally wrong, but won’t the lack of grip created by rain in theory magnify the Red Bull’s downforce advantage?
Unless the inability to floor it for the exhaust-blowing negates some of that.
Somethingwittyer (@somethingwittyer)
21st November 2013, 15:16
The RB’s have their KERS based TC, so coupled with the chassis they already have I don’t expect the rain to be any equalizer against them.
Kribana (@krichelle)
21st November 2013, 16:09
Hmm. If it does rain, Mercedes are to watch here. Really, Newey said after the Belgain Gp race, that “Mercedes’ pace in the wet was very impressive.”
Broc Smith (@strifeforce)
21st November 2013, 20:16
I only predict one storm occurring this weekend….
Hurricane Seb. It’s a wrap.