Rain tyre

They're handling it themselves.

And Dave, genuine question, don't ignore me, I need an answer, why does F1 even bother bringing wet tires to the races anymore? If we keep just having proceedings being delayed until intermediates work, what's the point of them? I understand visibility and standing water are safety issues, but those blue-striped tires are beginning to look like very expensive paddock furniture.

What's going on? And before Sunday's race, oh, thank goodness, international diplomacy achieved a breakthrough.

Did you see this? Martin Brundle and Kim Kardashian made up.

We had sessions that would start wet and then the track would dry out super fast.

And we'd see like maybe one or two practice session laps on wet tires.

Um, but that clock and that, uh, that dance and do-si-do act ran out here, uh, because about half an hour, um, no, actually about 45 minutes right before the pit lane opened, the sky opened up a storm cell form literally over the track.

Uh, so much so that it even knocked out the local radar, uh, And the radar that the teams use went malfunctioning for a bit.

I agree with that.

We do have several more good points here from John.

Next one we've got is, why do we even have wet tires anymore? It sounds like around the same page as Rachel for this one.

Why do we even have wet weather tires anymore? I mean, seriously, maybe I'm old, but I remember when this sport, oh, we're getting back in my day.

Yeah.

Why do we have wet tires in F1? Because I'll be honest with you.

What's the point? What is the point of having them? You know, I, I understand the safety aspect.

I completely get that.

You look at what they can do as a collective within, you know, motorsport.

And it's really hard to get a gauge on some of these drivers because, for example, back in 2021, you know, we had rain in Russia, didn't we? That was, in my opinion, the last proper time we saw them actually probably racing in rain.

But I just feel like we're at this point now where okay they can go out on inters but actually you're pretty much waiting until the track is so dry that you know inters will do and that's fine to manage but you know what is the point of taking wet tires and it's really hard to understand how good a driver is if they're not being given the opportunity to kind of showcase what they can do in those

conditions I think that's it a lot of how you kind of How you sort of rate an F1 driver, like truly raw pace, is you look at their wet weather performance.