Still raining. And it’s cold too.

Vettel-maniais in full force. The guy can’t move without tripping over seven autograph hunters with five pictures and six feltip pens thrust into his face. Today he went to the new Paddock Shop to meet and greet. So new is the new shop that they only finished building the shop an hour before Seb arrived. In fact the whole of the front side of the Nürburgring is so new that they haven’t finished building that yet. But when it is finished it will knock any other motorsports multi-entertainment super-complexes into a cocked hat. It’s going to have a roller coaster running through it. Through it!

Mr Webber’s been busy too, taxiing punters around a very slippery track – all part of the pre-race entertainment for the thousands of people who are already here. Mark also did a lap of the Nordschleife in a Megane (the yet-to-be-released Megane, he’s one of the first to drive it) for Renault and at the same time did an interview for The Red Bulletin. Both photographer and journalist looked decidedly green after their lap. It may have been a bit slippy, but Mark didn’t hold back.

Which will be good practice for Sunday. Forecast so far is for rain tomorrow, rain on Saturday and heavy rain on Sunday.

And we didn’t do too badly last time we went out in the heavy rain…

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