At BMW, for example, the heavier In other seasons where hitting the minimum weight limit has been difficult some drivers have raced without drinks bottles to save weight. Your postal code does not seem to exist on earth. Suddenly, over the winter, almost all of the drivers went on diets and worked out in a way to try to lose as much weight as possible. The regulation change will implement a minimum seat+driver … Put it in the bottom 1/3rd of the back rest.I don’t think a seat is a compulsory part of the car. Kimi Räikkönen, Finland, Lotus – 175 cm. Nico Rosberg, the Williams driver, dropped from 72 kilograms to 66 kilograms. What about a super tall driver who would struggle to be that light?The regulations themselves require a 6 foot 4 inch (1 metre 90 centimetre) driver to be theoretically capable of getting in and out of the car, and have done for years. And who is the lightest on the grid? ?How heavy was Montoya at McLaren when he was accused of being too fat?The thing is, I wouldn’t listen to Dennis-era McLaren calling anyone fat. Otherwise they would have either kept Wehrlein, or taken up Ferrari’s other young driver on offerEricsson was an equally good driver to Wehrlein (when the weight factor was included, my comment) but worked better with the team as he’s a team player said Vasseur said before Christmas. This year designers are again finding it difficult to hit the minimum weight limit due to the introduction of Halo.Introducing a minimum driver weight which is separate from the weight of the car promises to put taller drivers at less of a disadvantage. Ferrari Claims It Could Leave Formula 1, Start Its Own SeriesCEO Sergio Marchionne fights against transition to 'global NASCAR vision' in his latest rant. The people who design the cars would like the driver to be as small as possible while still having the strength to pilot the vehicle over a Grand Prix distance. But becoming shorter isn’t a realistic option, so taller drivers are inevitably at a disadvantage.The weight difference between the lightest driver three years ago (But taller drivers don’t have to run over the minimum weight limit, so their disadvantage is not this great. That means on the floor, and either forward or rearward as the car’s set-up requires.How great an advantage this is has varied over the years depending on how difficult teams have found it to hit the minimum weight limit. Separating car and driver weight seems fair, but why only 80kg? Ericsson couldn’t use it, as the increased overweight of his car nulled the advantage. Teams are usually able to get their cars far enough under the minimum weight limit that even the heaviest drivers don’t carry more weight on the track than their lighter rivals.The advantage shorter drivers have is that the ballast they carry to reach the minimum weight limit can be placed in an optimal position on the car. Our sport is after all not just a team sport but a driver sport itself. It’s the second consecutive year in which the team have had the tallest line-up, with last year’s pairing of Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin being 3cm shorter in total than their 2019 counterparts. Can you try again?Oups! It must be possible to fix seals if deemed necessary by the FIA technical delegate. He had secured the sole vote from the owners when he joined, as to who should be the team’s drivers going forward.Vasseur is not so stupid as to field two rookies in a team like Torro Rosso or Williams.Correction: Ericsson himself NEVER complained about it. In Karting this is a notable problem and part reason why tall drivers don’t come up through the ranks.Heavyweight classes in Karting arn’t always tall drivers either. Height (from the tallest to the shortest): Nico Hulkenberg 1m84 (6ft) Daniil Kvyat 1m81 Jenson Button 1m81 Romain Grosjean 1m80 Marcus Ericsson 1m80 Max Verstappen 1m80 Roberto Merhi 1m79 Alexander Albon – 186cm 2. Of course, that was 3 kg lighter than Michael Schumacher at the time, and nobody ever accused the 7-time world champion of carrying excess weight… If F1 Racing’s headine of “Now with 10% less fat” following the winter 2004 fitness regime McLaren set for Juan Pablo had been literally true, then by 2005 he would have been 65.8 kg, the same weight as the likes of Fisichella.I’ve a friend who’s about 6kg heavier than me.