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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1) Besides what other people have commented, the minimum weight is also required as a safety measure.
2) In the early days everyone aimed for exactly this: to reduce weight as much as possible. Nowadays, there are regulations stating the weight limits for various developmental and safety purposes, as well as to make the game as balanced as possible for the teams.
3) Weight alone does not mean everything, as teams can play with their cars’s weight distribution.
4) Speaking of reducing weight, that is one of the primary reasons as to why teams go for black liveries – they may not actually be painted black; rather, they have no paint at all. Then there is McLaren who print the livery and apply it on the car because they state that it’s lighter. This also plays on the aerodynamics of the car because it reduces irregularities on the paint
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