Driver weight

[Ranger]

Do you think it is right that weight loss is as important as it has become for F1 with KERS?

I'll use Michael Schumacher as a benchmark. He is 5'8" and weighed 75kg in 2004.

Nico Rosberg is about 5'9" and weighs 77kg. He is now losing weight.
Fernando Alonso is 5'7" and weighs 68kg. He is now losing weight.
Kimi Raikkonen is 5'8" and weights 68kg. He is now losing weight.
Rubens Barrichello is 5'7" and weighs 79kg. He has lost weight and is still doing so.
Sebastian Buemi is 5'8" and weighs 63kg. He is losing 5kg.
Robert Kubica is 6'1" and weighs 68 kg after last years weight loss.
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The only people who are blunt about losing weight are the Red Bull drivers:

Sebastian Vettel is 5'8" and weighs 68kg. He has gained 4kg from last year.
Mark Webber is 6'1" and weighs 75kg. He isn't losing weight.

Personally I'm not so keen on the idea of jockeys driving F1 cars and think something should be done regarding ballast placement.

Discuss.

[Garry Walker]

With KERS coming to f1, drivers have to weigh less than 70kg and KERS will immensly help the lighter drivers. So Massa and Heidfeld, because they are so small, will be advantaged, whereas drivers like Webber and Kubica, because they are so tall, are disadvantaged.

There is no way Schumacher ever weighed 75 kg. No way. 65 is more likely. The other weight statistics you have are probably wrong as well.

[leopard]

Alonso is trying to lose some weight in compliance with more benefit driver gained from KERS system.

Which part of Barichello makes him that weight? Montoya was probably a useful comparison.

[Ranger]

With KERS coming to f1, drivers have to weigh less than 70kg and KERS will immensly help the lighter drivers. So Massa and Heidfeld, because they are so small, will be advantaged, whereas drivers like Webber and Kubica, because they are so tall, are disadvantaged.

There is no way Schumacher ever weighed 75 kg. No way. 65 is more likely. The other weight statistics you have are probably wrong as well.

MS's personal website says 68kg, everywhere else says 74-75kg.

Webber is definitely 75kg - self admission the other day.
Alonso is definitely 68kg - Press release.
Kubica is definitely 68kg - self admission last year
Buemi is definitely 63kg - link

Pardon, Vettel is 64kg, 68 with suit and all.
Kimi is a lot lighter than I thought at 62kg. :\
Nico is 70kg, not 77kg.

Don't ever remember information from planetf1.com fact page!

The point, however, remains the same.

[Daniel]

I agree. There should be a 90kg weight for driver+ballast and that should be that. So there will be no incentive for drivers to lose silly amounts of weight.

[ioan]

There is no way Schumacher ever weighed 75 kg. No way. 65 is more likely. The other weight statistics you have are probably wrong as well.

While he was still racing in F1 he was reported at 68kgs for 173 cm (have no idea what that is in non-standard measuring units).

[ioan]

MS's personal website says 68kg, everywhere else says 74-75kg.

75 kg for 173 cm means you are overweight unless you are seriously into weightlifting, bodybuilding or any other sport that needs higher than usual muscular hypertrophia (or whatever it is spelled).

[Ranger]

75 kg for 173 cm means you are overweight unless you are seriously into weightlifting, bodybuilding or any other sport that needs higher than usual muscular hypertrophia (or whatever it is spelled).

I know, but for Michael that wouldn't surprise me.

One several-year-old site I saw stated that his weight on his official website was 73kg.

If you were really curious I suppose you'd have to ask his personal trainer for clarity on that one.

[gloomyDAY]

USF1's future driver.



Seriously, I like the image that F1 is now portraying. Anorexics and bulimics ONLY. (/sarcasm) But seriously, the FIA should do something about the ballast before we get jockeys as F1 drivers. I really can't look at Mark Webber and say 'fatty' with confidence.

[blito]

wee man is great
but what about my chances? 97kg at 183cms! rules me out of anything lighter than truck racing