The FIA is ready to cancel tomorrow’s dash race classes at Spa-Francorchamps with a view to guarantee it may well maintain a qualifying session for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Heavy rain has been forecast on Friday and Saturday at Spa. The only follow session of the weekend started in moist circumstances and additional rain is anticipated when qualifying for the grand prix takes place at 4pm native time immediately.

Saturday’s motion at Spa is meant to be completely targeted on the dash race. Its qualifying session is scheduled for 11am and the dash race at 3:30pm.

F1’s guidelines enable for follow classes for use to set the beginning grid for a grand prix within the occasion qualifying can’t happen. Nonetheless the FIA suggested groups earlier than operating started immediately that will not occur at Spa, with a view to guarantee they didn’t deal with the only real hour of follow as a aggressive session.

As an alternative the FIA is ready to cancel both or each of tomorrow’s dash race classes with a view to maximise the possibility of qualifying for the grand prix to go forward. As a final resort, the championship standings might be used to set a grid if no additional operating is feasible between first follow and Sunday’s race.

“Groups have been knowledgeable that free follow won’t be used to set the grid for both the dash [race] or the grand prix this weekend,” an FIA spokesperson informed RaceFans. “This has been accomplished to make sure that groups don’t deal with the primary session of the weekend as a aggressive session.

“Whereas the state of affairs concerning the climate is consistently evolving, the precedence shall be to run a qualifying session for the grand prix. Different classes could also be cancelled or rescheduled to facilitate this, and whether it is unimaginable to run a qualifying then the grid shall be set by championship order.”

The official FIA climate forecast at the moment signifies an 80% likelihood of rain throughout grand prix qualifying immediately. For tomorrow’s observe motion the danger of rain in the course of the dash race qualifying session is 40%, which rises to 60% for the dash race.

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