In the years when there were four days of time trials, if the second or third day of qualifying were to be rained out, neither would be made up ( for example, this happened in 1968 ).
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Singer argued that it would rise to then be rained out after a few days . In fact, both Sagan and Singer were incorrect; smoke plumes from the oil fires rose to 10, 000 & ndash; 12, 000 feet and lingered for nearly a month, but despite absorbing 75 & ndash; 80 % of the sun's radiation in the Persian Gulf area the plumes had little global effect.
