The regio♍n has been hit with extreme weather in recent weeks, with🐷 AlphaTauri’s Faenza base affected.

The “violent rain storm” resulted in the death of two people, while hundreds were forced to be e🅘vacuated.

Ahead of this weekend at Imola, which is just a 25-mi🍬nute drive from Faenza, more extreme weather✱ is on the way. 

Locals have been alerted of new flood and land🥂slide warnings with heavy rain forecast over the next co⛎uple of days.

Laꦍtest forecas꧅t shows the potential for 100mm of rain to fall on Wednesday, although it is expected to let up as the race weekend kicks off.

However, this could curtail te🌞ams’ preparations for the weekend on Thursday.

The good news is that, so far a𓆏t 🤡least, the Imola circuit hasn’t been damaged by the weather. 

mahbx.com understands this weekend's grand prix&nbs🌳p;isn't under thrღeat with F1 having procedures in place to deal with the conditions.

Rain is expected to impact the race weekend itself, which could give teams another challenge in terms of validating t🦄heir new upgrades.

Pirelli are introducing a new wet tyre for this weekend 🌱- one that doesn’t need tyre blankets to be used.

Speaking ahead of the weekend, Pirelli’s Mario Isola said: “Starting from this grand prix, a new compound of full wet tyre will be introduced which will not require the use of tyre warmer𒈔s beforehand.

“Track tests have shown even better performance than ൲the previous ♛Cinturato Blue full wet, even without the electric heating of the tyre.

“The result of studies carried out by Pirelli, it is the first concrete step towards the use o🅠f dry tyres without preheating.🥃”