Or, more likely, to suffer the pissing rain and chill winds whipping in over the microclimate that made RAF Silverstone such a great location for a Wellington bomber training base.  It doesn't do much for a F1 car's traction, though, which is why it looked to be an entertaining qualifying session when the tv cameras came on.  It had begun raining about 15 minutes before the session, and had just continued on... not heavy enough to stop the proceedings, not light enough to use dry tires.  The sort of weather that could easily mix up a grid in other words!  So what was the result?  Here's the provisional grid for the 2017 Grand Prix of Britain:

Pos	Driver	Car	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:39.069	1:27.893	1:26.600
2	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:40.455	1:28.992	1:27.147
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:39.962	1:28.978	1:27.356
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:39.698	1:28.732	1:27.376
5	Embryo Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1:38.912	1:29.431	1:28.130
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1:39.201	1:29.340	1:28.856
7	Sergio Perez	Force India Mercedes	1:42.009	1:29.824	1:28.902
8	False Esteban!	Force India Mercedes	1:39.738	1:29.701	1:29.074
9	Stoffelwaffle	McLaren Honda	1:40.011	1:30.105	1:29.418
10	Lettuce Grosjean	Haas Ferrari	1:42.042	1:29.966	1:29.549
11	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	1:41.404	1:30.193
12	Kid Kvyat	Toro Rosso	1:41.726	1:30.355
13	Indy Alonso	McLaren Honda	1:37.598	1:30.600
14	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	1:41.114	1:31.368
15	Felipe Not Retired Massa	Williams Mercedes	1:41.874	1:31.482
16	Pleasant Stroll	Williams Mercedes	1:42.573
17	K-Mag	Haas Ferrari	1:42.577
18	Hereline Wehrlein	Sauber Ferrari	1:42.593
19	Sony Ericsson	Sauber Ferrari	1:42.633
20	Smiley Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	1:42.966

The rain more or less stopped during Q1 and a dry-ish line formed around the track right at the end when Indy Alonso made one final desperate dash to get out of the dead zone... and ended up being fastest of the session.  Not to worry, he has a 30-grid spot penalty for an engine change so he'll be last anyways tomorrow.  Red Bull's Smiley Ricciardo never made it out of Q1, his turbo making a sound like it had ingested a guineapig

The rest of Quals went like it usually does... the track dried out, Hamilton went full ham on the place and set the fastest ever lap around Silverstone in the process.  He's over a half-second ahead of the nearest Ferrari.

Barring weather, I'd say it's a fairly good guess that Ham'n'cheese will win tomorrow, but that's why they run the races.  Tune in to F1U! afterwards to find out what went down.

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