THE BMW bites into the track at the Monticello Motor Club, hurtling down the straights and exploding out of every tricky rain-dampened corner.
Froome and his Team Sky colleagues were similarly happy with their efforts over the first three days as they safely negotiated two tricky stages in Yorkshire and a slippery rain-soaked finish in London.
"It was tricky because the rain was falling on different parts of the track at the time.
The Tour is "nervous" even when the roads are wide and flat, but the nervousness is exacerbated when there is anything extra – hills, cobbles, rain, tricky descents – and this is why Sunday'sSunday's stage two of the Tour, from York to Sheffield, could prove one of the most nervous in recent years.
To make the race even trickier, it tends to rain at 2pm every day.
The most tricky conditions are when the rain is beginning or ending and the track is becoming wet or drying.
Though the wind had dropped, constant rain made handling tricky from the start and, as Young pointed out, Wasps adapted superbly, keeping passes to a minimum until space had been created.
That proved the final score as heavy rain made conditions tricky.
Both kickers then lost their bearings, James missing two kicks and Farrell one, and with rain making handling tricky, both sides resorted to a kicking game.
Another Hanrahan penalty restored a 13-point advantage for Munster but Connacht snatched a bonus point in injury-time as Parks slotted a tricky conversion in the driving rain after replacement Heffernan's try.
The whole LA rain conversation is tricky, though.
