SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

A rainy weekend at Monza?

Weather forecasting is a famously imprecise art but at the moment the meteorologists are suggesting that this weekend's Italian Grand Prix will be troubled by rain at various points during the weekend. The current prediction is that Sunday will be dry and sunny but quite cool, while there are due to be thunderstorms on Friday and scattered showers on Saturday. The F1 teams will have to cope will all of this plus a large-scale resurfacing of the Italian track which, some teams say, they were not informed about in advance. According to reports after the recent Monza test, thiss gives the drivers less grip at the moment.