"Jon O'Rourke" wrote here on 09 Oct 2004:

"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote in message
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Formula One officials took the unprecedented step of
postponing
qualifying to the morning of the race

Not that unprecedented, from AtlasF1
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No, but I don't remember qualifying and race being held on the same
day before. I think that is indeed unprecedented, though I'll stand
corrected if necessary.

Certainly Grands Prix have been run in weather conditions that were
really not safe for racing - for example, the 1991 Australian GP. The
start was delayed because of the weather, but the race did get
underway. However, the rain was so bad that there were crashes all
over the place, and the race was called off after only 14 laps:

http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr516.html

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