The latest weather reports indicate that there is a serious chance of a wet race on Sunday. Melbourne and the surrounding areas will be in the grips of a strong and widespread thunderstorm zone during this time, promising significant amounts of rain.
This will see something that has not happened since 2010: the Australian Grand Prix has not been held in wet conditions for so long, when Jenson Button took a memorable victory in a McLaren.
In 2013, heavy rainfall also reached the track, but then the storm washed out the qualifying session, which had to be postponed until Sunday morning due to damaged asphalt.
This year, rain threatens the race time, and speaking of 2010 and McLaren, the chances of the latter's success have also increased. And that's just the cherry on the cake, if the rain comes early and disrupts Saturday, then Mohammed ben Sulayem, who has been much criticized recently, could be under a lot of pressure. After all, if the FIA starts to stumble at the highly anticipated first race, it will weaken the president's position, which is not very strong anyway...
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