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Originally Posted by Mystery
I don't know about this. It does feel unfair to have the flyweights having an advantage, but is that not just their good fortune.
And what if you followed an example of parity in other sports. Basketball players wearing platform shoes of various sizes. Life jackets or outboard motors for the less buoyant swimmers. Horse racing would be rather different.
Maybe it should not be as pronounced as it is, but I'm not sure there's a lot that should be done about it at the pinnacle of the sport.
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sports are about a competition between people, not their equipment. Good equipment has an advantage over bad equipment. When a sport has equipment as a mitigating factor in the competition, its important to have the participants on a level playing ground if the competition is to maintain a sense of fair play between the competitors.
In the past the ability to have all the cars underweight meant it was not a major factor because no one was disadvantaged outwardly (although being lighter meant the teams could shift ballast around to get some advantage).
Indycar mandated a driver and seat minimum weight to stop the 'unfair advantage' gained by someone like Danica Patrick, who is tiny. The weight to make the minimum driver seat weight has to be with seat.
Physical sports have advantages for people with the 'right build' build although many team sports have roles that cater for a variety of weight, size and build.
F1 isn't about size and weight so it shouldn't be a major factor in the competition, but under the new formula it has become one. That can be easily resolved