Sunny for the race with chance of rain on Friday

Current reports have Friday with roughly a fifty per cent chance of rain. The top temperatures is not expected to be above 22 degrees Celsius. For those teams using Michelin tyres this may pose problems.

Come Saturday the conditions are to improve with temperatures rising to up to 23 degrees Celsius and the chances of rain being at only fifteen per cent. The weather forecasts for Sunday are sunny with temperatures of around 25 degrees and the chance for a raindrop to fall from the sky is at no more than a negligible 10 per cent.

On the Friday the organisers had arranged for cars such as Mario Andretti’s title winning JPS Lotus 97/4 and Jackie Stewart’s 1971 Tyrell Ford are to be paraded in front of the spectators. Race chassis’ driven by Niki Lauda, Clay Regazzoni, Ronnie Peterson and Gilles Villeneuve will also be part of the parade.