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Originally Posted by simmo
Good read Gary. That article really goes in depth on a subject probably not given the proper awareness and I think it will have to be thought about hard by the governing bodies involved. Will it happen now with most of the teams r&d probably a long way on?
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Hi Simmo,
With some of the commentary about the weight issue at the moment there is
the theme that it is discriminatory.
However, there is an even a longer precedent in the horse racing industry for riders
and job prospects for morbidly obese jockeys are probably, to coin a phrase, "slim".
So probably fat chance it will change in F1 any time soon.
This Foxsports article I found from 2010 also makes for a quick interesting read.
Mark Webber is being interviewed at the time and talks about how tough the
height and weight challenge was for him. He talks about how bruised his
elbows and knees would become as they smashed into the carbon fibre
cockpit under the G-loading.
http://www.foxsports.com.au/motor-sp...-1225924536950