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A Fine Balance

Of all the places to have the first wet race of the current SECU-era, it had to be Monaco. The result was a memorable one, as Richard Barnes explains

For the first five Grands Prix of the 2008 season, the weather gods produced dry and grippy conditions, delaying the answer to one of the pre-season's burning questions: just how would the loss of traction control affect the field in wet weather racing?

The wet streets of Monaco not only answered that question, but also injected spectacle and unpredictability into a race that is routinely high in glamour and low in racing action.

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