As teams have pulled their 2022 cars together, they have faced a tremendous battle to try to hit the minimum weight limit.
For although F1’s minimum mass increased from 752kg to 795kg for this season, the majority of squads could not get anywhere near that target.
As a compromise, and to prevent an expensive arms race in a bid to cut car weight down, an agreement was reached for the minimum weight to be increased to 798kg for the start of the season.
However, even that has proved to be a challenge for some teams – which is why they have been looking at all areas they can to lose any excess they still have.
A close inspection of cars at last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix shows many of them have areas of paint missing – and are instead stripped all the way to the raw carbon fibre.
This included the McLaren, whose airbox has changed from orange at the launch to be black now, and Aston Martin – which has even taken to removing paint from areas of its sidepod such was its…
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