Sao Paulo GP qualifying set for Sunday after rain postponement

Qualifying astatine the Sao Paulo Grand Prix has been postponed until Sunday arsenic a effect of dense rain.

The league had been owed to commencement astatine 18:00 UK clip (15:00 local) connected Saturday.

A determination was yet made astatine 16:45 section clip connected Saturday, aft a bid of delays, that the way was excessively bedewed and conditions were not going to improve.

Governing assemblage the FIA said a determination connected a caller commencement clip would beryllium made “as soon arsenic possible”.

Formula 1 president Stefano Domenicali said: “The conditions are not harmless to thrust and determination is simply a occupation with the light.”

Sunset is astatine conscionable aft 18:00 section clip successful Sao Paulo.

Domenicali’s interrogation with F1’s authoritative tv transmission was interrupted by Lewis Hamilton, who said: “I privation to spell out. If you springiness america amended bedewed tyres, we’d beryllium capable to spell retired successful this.”

A spokesperson for governing assemblage the FIA said: “The determination was taken due to the fact that of the deficiency of visibility caused by the level of rainfall we person experienced successful the past fewer hours.

“There is simply a batch of lasting h2o connected parts of the circuit, which renders conditions unsafe.

“As overmuch arsenic we would each similar to spot contention connected track, the information of drivers, squad members, volunteers, officials and spectators is our main priority.”