Times sure have changed.....so if it starts raining during a race, the riders will have had no experience of what the surfaces are like in the wet, where the puddles can form? Surely an ideal opportunity to offer controlled laps behind the very experienced and skilled travelling marshalls? We had to learn the circuit, especially the mountain, so thoroughly that you could count your way between bends in thick mist, at high-speed touring pace, if not race pace.
In the 70s, at least when it came to race day, they used to send us 125 riders out to see how many were killed, then decide if the Senior was to be scrapped, so I am not advocating a return to that, but it is supposed to be ROAD racing! How long before pace cars are brought in for wet or misty sections?