Chocobo Racing and Weather Effects

[RyuujinZERO]

There was a video posted in one of the other threads that shows the differences quite cleary along with multiple other threads discussing how bad this is..

Probably this one

tl;dw - Sunny weather run gets no speed boosts, but finishes course in 109 seconds. Wet weather it rains for 3/4 of the course, gets a hero potion AND sprint shoes, finishes in 123 seconds.

The most telling moment for me, is how once the weather clears up in the wet weather race, the rider gets heavied, but is still moving faster than when it was raining.