It is to reach Indonesian GP and remember the figure of the ‘all rain’, the rainmaker who walked up and down the pitlane last year with a golden bowl in one hand and a small mallet in the other requesting a ritual to appease the de electrical storm that struck on Sunday and forced the postponement of the MotoGP race. And it worked because after 40 minutes a conventional wet race could start.
With the weather forecasts for the weekend in this area of the island of bumpy There is no risk of this type of severe storm – if in March they move into October – although there will be classic Southeast Asian showers in the early afternoon. The most worrying will be Really hot which they will face because the The sensation is between 38ºc and 39ºc for three days of competition with an extreme UV index scale, between 11 and 13.
For pilots, it’s not just about the heat of the environment, it’s about the heat projected from the asphalt, which is usually higher, and the heat that their body receives directly from the heat of the engines. Furthermore, Mandalika is a very physical circuit, measuring 4,300 meters and in the long race you have to do 27 laps. Less humid than Malaysia, another critical point in the calendar, but hotter.
And it won’t be an easy weekend for drivers with low heat tolerance. Was at the recent Bharat/India GP Jorge Martin He reached his physical limit in Sunday’s long race, with an episode of absolute dehydration with arrhythmia and tachycardia to defend second place. He gave the doctor such a fright Angel Charter that he was almost on the verge of having emergency defibrillation. So it was 33ºc and a humidity of 65%.
Last Sunday F1 faced an intense Grand Prix in Qatar where drivers had to retire, like young Logan Sargeant, drivers who vomited inside their helmets like Esteban Ocón, or drivers who passed out in Medical Center like Alex Albon or Lance Stroll. And hardened in a thousand battles like Fernando Alonso asking for a bucket of water to be thrown into the cabin, something impossible, to reduce the heat: “This is one of the hardest races I’ve ever had.”
Source: La Verdad
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