FIA Reveals Plan to Cut F1 Car Weight Below 700kg by 2031
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The Technical Director of the Monoposter Department of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) presented a strategy to reduce the mass of Formula 1 monoposters by almost 70 kilograms with the introduction of the next regulatory cycle. For the 2026 season, the maximum permissible weight of the machines is set at 768 kg, which represents a reduction of 30 kg compared to the limit of 798 kg of the end of the 2025 soil effect. ...
Formula 1 could experience a major transformation of its single-seaters by 2030-2031. While the envisaged return of V8 engines concentrates a large part of the attention, the FIA pursues another equally ambitious objective: to get the cars back under the 700 kg bar, a level that they have not reached since 2016. Nikolas Tombazis, director of the Federation's single-seaters, has detailed the various technical paths studied to achieve this, betwee…
The technical director of the single-seater racing car department at the International Automobile Federation (FIA) has presented a strategy to lighten Formula 1 cars by nearly 70 kilograms when the next regulatory cycle is introduced.
The FIA wants to completely transform the Formula 1 single-seaters with the beginning of the next decade.Diego Merino / JG MP The 2026 single-seaters have already lost weight, but the FIA considers that the cut is short.For the next generation, which will arrive as late as 2031, the federation has set itself an ambitious goal: to reduce another 80 kilos and leave the cars below 700 kg. Formula 1 has been trying for years to correct a trend that …
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