Who will place second in the 2023 US Grand Prix?

[bossy122]

And wouldn't have been fun to weight the cars so, with the drivers in them, they weighed the same. I always wondered how Eddie Cheever would have done next to Prost in the RE40 without the Professor being so much lighter in weight. Just fantasies though.

[sky1911]

Well on the driver weights. Was it car+driver back then or just a minimum weight for the car?
I don't have a clue about current F1 rules, but I know that both car and driver are weighed. There's likely a minimum weight for the car. If there is a combined minimum weight for driver + car, you could make the car lighter and place ballast where you "need it" in the car to match the minimum weight. A lighter driver should always been an advantage, less weight and if a kilo makes such a difference, than tall drivers should be an issue. Kinda like jockeys on horses. Same thing, only more.. badumm-tss... horse power

[bossy122]

(We've gone WAY off topic here )It's always been my understanding that the cars have a min weight but the the drivers weight is just pure luck. That's why the small guys have an advantage. Prost was a small guy where as Cheever may have been one of the tallest drivers ever. The Danny Pedrosas of the world really have a weight - or lack there of -advantage.