They mean you don't have to care about it though.

Which is a pity, because it’s one of the very few high-level series that had some degree of aerodynamic freedom until the new formula. Seeing how different teams solve the problem of how to get around the track as quickly as possible is fascinating.

The aero restrictions look like they'll basically turn F1 into an engine formula, unfortunately. The teams are suggesting that the cars themselves will be minimally different from another aerodynamically, which does make things less interesting from a technical perspective. I guess it will make it much more a driver…

Car designers also add idiotically gigantic wheels with rubber-band tyres, so clearly they know more about vehicle design than those pesky engineers...

You'd think that if the whole bloody thing is full of fertiliser runoff, you could in theory reclaim the fertiliser products.

“Four stars.”

It’s not exactly much trouble though is it? They literally type one less zero at the end of the threshold number. The rest of the regulation would have been written anyway. You could argue that it's actually less trouble because of all the time they save not typing all those zeros.

Unfortunately for you guys it doesn't seem to be one that Hyundai North America shares.

The trick is to cut the whole back end off:

Agreed on all points. I'm also looking forward to Piastri hopefully making the move up in the next couple of years, though I'm not sure what Alpine's arrangement will be for its juniors without a junior team.

I’d reply to your reply to me if I could, but Kinja being Kinja, your comment is stuck in some sort of purgatory from which it can only be seen, not interacted with.

You’re most welcome.

With both in their lightest configuration (i.e. the manual V6), I think you’re correct that the difference in weight won’t be large. The NA 2GR apparently weighs 172 kg (wet, long engine) and the M139 is quoted as 160.5 kg wet on the Daimler site. The supercharger and plumbing probably weighs another 10-15 kg (the…

Moving the more experienced Giovinazzi to Haas is a sensible option - for Haas anyway - as it should help them with development. Perhaps slightly too late for the new formula though.

I think his experience might be the only reason that Vasseur wants him to stay for next year.

No worries.

It would probably be easier to retrofit in an Elise (which is an intriguing option for a swap...).

The most recent articles I can find which mention specific overweight cars referred to the 2014 Sauber and the 2017 Force India. There were also a lot of suggestions that the Williams FW42 and FW43 (2019 and 2020) were both overweight (which is backed up by this article):

Had it been a lighter car I think the GR engine would have been very well-suited to the classical Lotus philosophy. As it stands, I hope that they’ll give the AMG their own character.

Except it only has two seats. Which is fair enough, but those vestigial seats in the Evora were kinda cool.