In the March testing thread freedom honda posted a link to an arcticle about Dr. Mario Theissen sugesting a need to increase the minimum weight of Formula 1 cars.
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2009/03/ ... theissen/
He basicaly talks about how the inclusion of KERS into a car drastically influences a cars balance, and how it has forced some drivers to loose weight, and how it litmits there placement of ballast. I think that teams have had the luxury of being able to move ballast around cars for some years now to help them get the correct handling charicteristics, and with the introduction of KERS it makes it harder for them to do that and get even tyre wear.
I was thinking about this and I particularly dont like the idea of increasing the cars minimum weight, and I though about the engine weight rule;
5.4.1 The overall weight of the engine must be a minimum of 95kg.
I'm pretty sure that 95kg was also the minimum weight of the engine, when V10's were allowed. What I would have rather suggested is that the minimum engine weight decrease by 10kg or so. I dont think that it is unreasonable to assume that if a V10 can be made as light as 95kg (and im sure they could have made them lighter, other wise they would never have restricted them to 95kg in the first place) then a V8 should be able to be made at least 10kg lighter...
It is just a though and I really just want to read other peoples opinions about this scince it has been causing such a problem for the teams running KERS. Any thoughs would be appreciated...
-Lazo