Oh Dear - 10 DNFs and 10 red flags a race - someone needs to check your medication asd

We can’t be that close to a circus act yet

We are and without a net.

Oh we are, and all without a safety net.

I was happy just to be able to see glowing brake disks under braking - now that was worth seeing.

@ asd To put it a bit more mildly, it's not suicidely dangerous at all.

F1 cars are far heavier than they used to be. Between 1995 and 2009 cars were between 595 and 605kg - with zero driver fatalities.

Current cars are a third heavier since then, not including the driver or fuel (as was the case before). And that's around 50kg heavier than an Indycar in Indy 500 spec - when F1 cars used to be 100kg lighter.

Your comment is just fundamentally flawed, the cars are significantly heavier yet we've had some more serious incidents which mainly are down to bad luck or obvious issues that went unaddressed for far too long (i.e. the halo for head protection).

There's plenty of uses for it so it's unfortunate that it isn't happening.

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There’s no reason that it would be less safe. You can still have rules in place - crash tests, the halo, the survival cell and so on. The teams are already making parts weigh as little as possible - many struggled to reach the weight limit last year and they’ve started removing paint to save weight now!

If they were all adding weight to the car to get over the limit, I’d be all for it but as it stands, it won’t make any difference. The cars weigh a lot because of the engines, the mandatory safety features and the big wheels etc. If they could shed more weight now, they’d do it so that they could place the weight where they want it instead.

You do realize @asd that the minimum weight rule hasn't been the only rule concerning safe car construction in at least 40 years?

You realize @ahxshades that "removing the minimum weight limit" would result in at least 10 DNF's each race, many including serious injuries and deaths?
And there would be 10 red flag periods each race as well because of flimsy wings and other debree flying on the track.

I am all for removing the minimum weight limit now we have a cost cap, and opening the rules a little more too maybe. As long as safety is properly legislated for let the cars weigh as little as they want them to.