Webber wants higher minimum car weight
Feeling at a disadvantage, Mark Webber is calling out for a higher minimum car weight limit. While being one of the larger drivers in the Formula One grid, he shares among a few others the disadvantage of weighing a lot more than drivers such as Nick Heidfeld and Felipe Massa. And with KERS adding roughly 30kg's to the overall weight of the car, there is less free ballast to be moved around.
In an interview with the official Formula One website, Webber responded to whether increasing the weight limit would be a good idea: "Of course it would. And it would not be unfair to do that. The smaller drivers don’t get a disadvantage but at the moment the bigger guys do, so it would only be fair."
"And it would save a lot of money, too. At the moment the teams are spending money to make the cars lighter and by increasing the minimum weight to a sensible number, the teams would not have to spend money on saving weight. The weight limit is incredibly aggressive! I am not Pavarotti and still it’s not easy."
"What a lot of rubbish," he says about the presumable strenght advantage bigger drivers have, "It’s not a strength advantage as all the guys on the grid are strong."
