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Originally Posted by Adam43
The weight is the force of gravity on the mass. The grip of the tyres is aided by this force, and as you say, not as important as the additional downforce from aero nowadays.
The mass is what you have to move around. The greater the mass the more effort it is to make it accelerate (in any direction).
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...and the greater the downforce needed to stick it to the track to counteract the amount of centrifugal force generated by said mass going around a corner.