why is there a minimum weight requirement in Formula 1? Wouldn’t teams be incentivized to lessen the weight of their cars for faster speeds?

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why is there a minimum weight requirement in Formula 1? Wouldn’t teams be incentivized to lessen the weight of their cars for faster speeds?

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Multiple reasons. One for safety, they wouldn’t want teams compromising the structure to save weight, and two to help competitiveness. F1 already has a cost cap but restricting the minimum weight also can help teams with less budgets catch up in some aspects.

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