DESPITE a couple of wet days at the track, it appears that all will be clear for Sunday’s Bathurst 1000.
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Weatherzone says the chance of rain will drop to just a 20 per cent chance of less than one millimetre on Sunday.
It’s good news for the teams and drivers after wet conditions wreaked havoc on Thursday and Friday.
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Drivers took much more caution, recording times around 20 seconds slower than what would normally be seen.
Some drivers even chose to forgo their practice time, not prepared to risk damaging their cars unnecessarily ahead of qualifying and the race itself.
One driver, Richie Stanaway, went as far as to dismiss his chart-topping time on Thursday, saying it wasn’t a good sign if the track would be dry on Sunday.
“For whatever reason we’ve got good cars here in the wet, and we showed that last year as well. It’s something we’ve been reading into a lot to try and find pace in the dry,” he said.
“We still haven’t figured it out and today kind of reaffirms that issue.
“I’d love it to rain because we don’t have remotely close to the pace in the dry to get any sort of result.”
Drivers raced on a very wet track in 2017. At the conclusion of the race, there were only 10 cars on the lead lap and six of the 26 cars having retired from the race all together.
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