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Sainz admits ‘problem' with even heavier 2025 cars

Jul.26 Carlos Sainz says it's a 'problem' for Formula 1 that the cars keep getting incrementally heavier. Today's hybrid-powered single seaters are literally hundreds of kilograms heavier than in the past – and now an extra 2kg has been added to the weight of the seat-plus driver for 2025. The FIA explained that the move is 'in the interests of driver wellbeing'. 'Obviously, two kilos is not a big change,' Ferrari's Sainz said. 'The problem is when you start adding two kilos on top of another two, another two, another two, which I think is where the trend has been in Formula 1 over the last ten years. 'Then the cars have become 800 kilos heavy,' he said. 'In the past, they were...
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