I was just reading that the qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup at Daytona was rained off yesterday. They therefore will start depending on each driver's points won so far in the season.
Has an F1 qually been rained off (must have been at some time, surely), and if so how was the grid decided?|||They just get on with it in F1, rain or no rain.
An example would be the 1994 Belgian GP; the pole time was 34 seconds slower than the time of the previous year! Barrichello made the most of a short break in the weather to take that pole...he was just on the track at the right moment.
In the old days when both Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon were timed sessions, it occasionally happened that one day was wet and very few drivers bothered to go out, knowing that the times would be uncompetitive compared to the other day. The session still counted however, it was just that next to no drivers registered a time. An example of that would be the 1979 US GP at Watkins Glen; there was torrential rain and some fog on the Friday, and with rivers of water running across the track only half-a-dozen drivers went out. Gilles Villeneuve finished the session 12 seconds faster than his teammate Scheckter, who was well clear of anybody else...it was all rendered moot by the dry Saturday session however.|||They have a HOTDOG eating contest in the Garage area
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