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Webber: Rain could be a problem at a night race

Will Formula 1 soon host its first night race or will it be unsafe? Many try to answer the question. Singapore and Melbourne would be interested to host a race at night but Red Bull driver Mark Webber wonders if anyone thought about how it would be at night when rain would fall down.

Speaking about a Formula 1 race at night Mark Webber told F1.com he hasn't got a clue if it would work. "It has never been done before, so how do we know?" he wonders. "I have raced a sports car in Le Mans so I have driven at night - even in wet conditions - and that was fine.

"But what we don't know is a situation where a massive amount of lighting is being beamed onto the circuit through rain and spray. So the lights are above the spray- we are under the spray - how does that work for us? We think that this creates a difficult situation - we think, but we don't know.

"A Grand Prix held in dry, perfect conditions and if the track is lit up like daytime, maybe the event could run well. But there is the million dollar question that we don't know - what happens if it rains?"

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