La Sarthe and Spa ,weather report and other " stuff "

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Have they changed the weather for the 1 hour Spa race?
It used to be that almost every race you had rain starting between lap 5 and 9 that required changing to IM tires. The last 3 times I did the race, there was no or little rain before lap 17, so that the dynamic of the race changed considerably.
Anyone else the same experience?
 
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Have they changed the weather for the 1 hour Spa race?
It used to be that almost every race you had rain starting between lap 5 and 9 that required changing to IM tires. The last 3 times I did the race, there was no or little rain before lap 17, so that the dynamic of the race changed considerably.
Anyone else the same experience?

I didn’t run it today, but I did yesterday morning and for the first time ever I saw no rain at all. 1 hour of clear skies. Totally changed things. I was using the Porsche 919 and could have 1 pitted but decided to two pit so I could stay on fuel mode 1 and try and post some lap times. Without rain and two putting I fully lapped the field once and about half twice.
 
I didn’t run it today, but I did yesterday morning and for the first time ever I saw no rain at all. 1 hour of clear skies. Totally changed things. I was using the Porsche 919 and could have 1 pitted but decided to two pit so I could stay on fuel mode 1 and try and post some lap times. Without rain and two putting I fully lapped the field once and about half twice.
I will have to try this....
...tried the 60 min Spa and rains came as expected on laps 6/7 and persisted til laps 13/14. Nothing different from what I find.
 
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I will have to try this....
...tried the 60 min Spa and rains came as expected on laps 6/7 and persisted til laps 13/14. Nothing different from what I find.

Ok so after having a no rain run a few days ago today was the worst rain I’ve ever had. Started on lap 6 and didn’t stop until about 18 minutes left in the race. Was wet enough to overwhelm the inters even. Honestly no fun.
Well it looks to me that the rains at Spa are random in amount but not in scheduled, just as programmed....
 
I don’t know, usually rain for me hits more often around lap 10. Lap 6 seemed early and it was the longest and hardest rain I’ve seen.
I've always seen the rains come just around the same time it starts getting dark and rains all through the night... my runs are on easy difficulty... it's been like this since the first time I ran this race...

Sometimes I will see showers appear again later after it gets light but it's usually not hard rain...
 
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