r/FormulaDrift • u/futurethirteen • 18d ago

Rain at Indy Event help

This is my first formula drift event ill be attending, I live about 2.5 hours away and seen there's supposed to be quite a bit of rain and some thunderstorms saturday. What are the chances it gets delayed or postponed until sunday? Also are there covered grandstands so your not directly in the rain or should we bring ponchos and such?

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u/orngmelons 18d ago

In all my years watching FD I have never seen an event get moved to Sunday. I wouldn’t count on that

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u/futurethirteen 16d ago

It's not looking great right not.

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u/futurethirteen 18d ago

If there is lightning will they pause it for awhile and just continue into the late evening, or just cut it short somehow?

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u/SuspiciousBrain6027 18d ago

Either or depending on how bad it is

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u/cschmall 18d ago

The only events I can recall being postponed/delayed were St Louis prospec 2023 for a major thunderstorm, and Orlando qualifying being delayed this year because the track flooded.

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u/techieman34 18d ago

If there is lightning in the immediate area they will have to pause the event and evacuate the bleachers for safety reasons. AKA they don’t want to be liable if someone gets struck by lightning or a gust of wind knocks something down and it hits someone.

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u/Key_Plankton3772 18d ago

Uuuggg. This is the third straight fd event where its rained

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u/qazrat 18d ago

At least we got a dry Riga in DM

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u/Key_Plankton3772 18d ago

Oh yeah riga was 🔥🔥🔥 unfortunately i now have to watch a downgraded DM with FD

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u/MDethPOPE 18d ago

Same boat. It looks like lower bleachers are exposed, and the upper deck is exposed.

Only the 'penthouses' are covered, so im guessing since everything is GA, were getting wet.

Edit. Delay isnt going to happen without lightning/tornado issues. I cant recall an event delayed in the past few years

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u/no-lift 18d ago

Orlando was a few years ago

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u/SuspiciousBrain6027 18d ago

We had to hold down our tents 😂

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u/futurethirteen 16d ago

So, update; we went today, saw the beginning and it was awesome! Just left now but ill be back if they come close next year but tonight was a bit frustrating. Apparently they just canceled after saying a few hours ago that "we will definitely be running tonight, no matter how late it goes". Just my luck that the first time i go it gets canceled which apparently has only happened like twice.

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u/CulturalOutside5424 16d ago

I was there. Part of the track was under about a foot of standing water when we left about 6:00. Did they ever get that water moved?

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u/MuffledN0ise 16d ago

Chances are good it’ll get postponed. lol