Driving in the Rain

[Dan Svoboda]

As Silverstone is the next SRCA race, and it seemingly never stops raining there, what advice can people offer for rain driving?

Here are the obvious things that occur to me:

rain tires
drive slower (duh)
brake earlier
short shift

 

[Enzo Fazzi]

Lowest tire pressures, more wings. A little bit more TC if possible. Brake bias more to the rear.

 

[Alen Terzic]

slow in, fast out

 

[Gustavo da Silva]

And practice. Im going to practice all I can In the wet for silverstone.

 

[Christian Michel]

Lowest tire pressures, more wings. A little bit more TC if possible. Brake bias more to the rear.

Too much TC can produce a strange "locking" which causes you to spin or oversteer/slide a lot...so be careful with that. Especially when it stopped raining and it starts to dry this can get a serious problem. Most important is, don't overdrive the car, it will feel slow so don't get deluded by that.

 

[Florian Koetz]

I agree with Christian, the most important thing is to stay within the limit at all times. Especially once a dry line has been established and once you switched to dry tyres. Just drive slower and make 1000% sure that you stay on the dry stuff.

For the 370z there is something special: The wet tyres are really bad. So when it starts raining after 45min you are better off by not changing tyres. The dry tyres are not a lot slower than the wet tyres but not changing tyres saves a lot of time during the pit stop.
That's what I had planned for the wet race back when I did SRCA in the 370z although it never rained there.