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We begin the Formula 1 season with Australia and Malaysia, two places that historically have had their share of wet races. This could, therefore, be where we get to see whether the drivers' fears about racing in heavy rain without traction control are justified. The natural reaction of most fans when they hear an F1 driver expressing his concerns about this is to tell him to stop being such a jessy, and to do what he's paid to do. David Coulthard has taken some stick along these lines recently, but he was simply expressing what almost all of them had agreed upon when they talked together about it. DC and his Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber, as leading lights in the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, were simply more willing to put their heads above the parapet in voicing the concern. In fact, the problem of racing in the wet without traction control isn't just a case of returning to what drivers did before the technology came along to rescue them. The problem is that this generation of F1 cars has been developed over the years to be optimised around having traction control. This has given them general characteristics that, without that technology, will make them fairly evil in conditions of standing water. © 2021 Autosport
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