Oscar Piastri has highlighted his desire to see F1 tackle the weight of the current challengers and bring the figure down.<\/p>\n
While F1 cars have long been increasing in weight, this year’s cars saw a reduction of 30 kilogrammes compared to their 2025 predecessors.<\/p>\n
However, they still weigh in at a minimum of 768kg, 77kg heavier than the first turbo-hybrid cars introduced in 2014.<\/p>\n
The ever-increasing number has drawn complaints from drivers, particularly over how it impacts the handling of the cars through low-speed corners.<\/p>\n
When asked what weight cut would make a tangible difference, Piastri told media including RacingNews365: \u201cRealistically to make a big difference, the number needs to be probably 50+, the cars are still pretty heavy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we could get it back into a figure starting with six, in the 600s somewhere, that would be good.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re never going to get back to 500s high-500s. The only way you can get there is by taking out the battery and making the engines more simple.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Piastri admitted that the cars can still be fun to drive despite their weight, pointing to the high-downforce challengers of recent seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I don’t think you necessarily need to that,\u201d he said. \u201cThe cars last year we had in high-speed corners were probably some of the best we’ve ever had.<\/p>\n
\u201cGranted, I know mine was probably the best of the lot.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can achieve some of that realistically. I don’t know the numbers of the weight of the engine.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if we had a simpler engine, then you could easily take out quite a bit of weight. But whether that’s actually beneficial for the sport is a completely different question.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has highlighted his desire to see F1 tackle the weight of the current challengers and bring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-643162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}