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Originally Posted by Taxi645
Regarding point 5 though, the wording of it is slightly alarming: "Reduce or contain car mass". If they were very serious about reducing car mass they would have not included the word "contain". I'm afraid based on this wording, the ambitions regarding weight reduction will be limited and other aspects will be given priority.
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V8 cars were 642kg with a 95kg engine in 2013. In 2022, we have about 60kg of extra safety equipment than 2013, which of course cannot be removed from the car.
So even going back to 13" wheels (-18kg, and minus -5kg if you are happy with the narrower GP2-size tyres instead of the wider 2017 tyres) and V8 engines (-72kg), it won't be possible to get the weight much below 700kg.
[I'd like to see the front tyres go back to the historical size (245mm) and the rear tyres left at the historical size which they returned to (405mm) [fronts and rears were scaled up equally in 2017, even though
only the rears were ever scaled down by the FIA in 1994 & 1998]... A more rearwards tyre distribution and therefore weight distribution should encourage shorter cars.]