Formula 1: Alfa Romeo boss hits out at Rival team – Frederic Vasseur, the team principal of the Alfa Romeo racing team is visually upset and disappointed with the other F1 racing teams. It has come to light that the Alfa Romeo boss has expressed his displeasure as other teams have resorted to playing mind games to change FIA rules that dictate the speed in racing cars. Follow Formula 1 Live and F1 Updates on InsideSport.IN
There are specific rules that showcase the minimum weight that an F1 car should have to legally participate in a race. As per the new norms of 2022, the minimum combined weight of the car and driver should be 795 kilograms. Reports claim that teams have been unable to reach the minimum weight of the car and thus the high speed of these cars is getting hampered.
Formula 1: Alfa Romeo principal Frederic Vasseur ACCUSES rival teams of playing GAMES with FIA, hits out at Aston Martin and others
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Alfa Romeo has been the only team that has reached the minimum weight limit quite comfortably. On the other hand, other rival teams like Aston Martin and Williams have struggled comprehensively and thus have resolved to a new technique where they have stripped off the paints from their cars, in a bid to make their cars faster.
While other teams want the minimum weight limit to be increased, the Alfa Romeo chief feels that would be a massive disadvantage for his side who has adhered to the rules from the beginning and has been successful with their car.
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‘Honestly, I don’t understand all the comments [about raising the weight limit again] because that I think it’s the target for everybody that when you are designing a racing car the weight is always the target number one,’ Vasseur told Autosport.
Formula 1: Alfa Romeo principal Frederic Vasseur ACCUSES rival teams of playing GAMES with FIA, hits out at Aston Martin and others
‘Nobody can be surprised with the weight at the last minute, I think that some teams played a game with the FIA expecting that the FIA at the last minute would increase the minimum weight [even more].’
‘[It would be] completely unfair, because during the [development] project we took some decisions in terms of complexity also linked to the weight, and we made our choice. And you know that the F1 world is like this, that everybody’s trying to play a game.
‘It was crystal clear that the target of weight was completely achievable, that we are able to not be overweight. If some other teams are not at the weight limit, it’s because they took some other options, perhaps with some other advantages, but with the constraint of the weight.’
Formula 1: Alfa Romeo principal Frederic Vasseur ACCUSES rival teams of playing GAMES with FIA, hits out at Aston Martin and others
