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“Well, Bob, twenty-five minutes to go until qualifying and the weather’s turning for the worse. We could be in for a wild session.”

“I think we are, Sam. I’m very glad I don’t have to call strategy for any of these teams. Or the race organisers, to be honest.”

“Yes, the race coordinator can delay or even call off qualifying altogether if the weather gets really bad, but they don’t like doing that, it causes all sorts of other problems. I don’t think it’s quite bad enough for that yet, at least I think everyone will be able to get some sort of lap in, but they’ll be significantly slower than the kind of times we’d expect in good conditions.”

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“Yeah, in the dry we’d expect lap times around a hundred and seven seconds here, I think we’ll be lucky to see a pole position time of under a hundred ten today. The wind will be following up the climb to the sixth ring, that’ll help a bit, but it’s mostly blowing across the line of the course, which unbalances the pressure across a dragon’s wings and can make them unsteady in flight. Tricky stuff.”

“Indeed. It’s very likely that qualifying will come down to whoever gets luckiest with the weather, it’s quite inconsistent right now, sort of coming in waves, so there might be a gap that a few manage to get out in. We have some very good weather forecasters here at the course, but there’s a little bit of a delay on their reports reaching the teams, and that delay might be too much today.”

“It’s going to play havoc with the starting order for the race. We’ll see some upsets tomorrow.”