The lighter the car body is means that the greater the left space for racing car counterweight will be. In addition to committed to the pursuit of lightweight, to distribute the counterweights of F1 racing car properly is crucial, and even how much the gasoline carrying capacity is, the weight distribution caused by the change must also be taken into account. Nowadays the FIA provided that the overall weight of F1 racing car must not be less than 600kg, including the racing drivers’ weights, clothing weights and so on. However, this provision does not seem to make much sense, because there is no F1 racing car is less than 600 kilograms. It usually needs to comply with more than 1,000 specifications and rules when manufacturing the F1 racing cars, it uses eight-cylinder engine with a capacity of 24,000 liters, and there are more than 5000 elements, which can produce more than 900 horsepower.

 

All F1 racing cars design engineers will limit the minimum vehicle weight restrictions following FIA regulations, it’s the only way to use the counterweights to adjust the racing cars counterweights for some special racing track. Thus, increasing the counterweights to racing cars is a very important but difficult task . Due to its high density, so the volume of each piece of tungsten alloy counterweight is not great, but the weight is twice than the weight of the same volume of steel, and therefore it is very suitable to be used as a counterweight in F1 racing cars(the following pic is the racing car tungsten alloy hub counterweights of the Red Bull Racing team in the French Grand Prix). For F1 racing cars, the correct and rational use of tungsten alloy counterweight can largely enhance the performance of the racing car in a racing game, improve the car's handling performance, control the racing cars’ weights distribution, thus to reduce the center of gravity of the racing cars. In 2002, the FIA and some professionals made the reform program for F1 racing cars counterweights, that is 1 bonus point got from the World Championship, one kg counterweight can be increased in his racing car. So it can be seen that increasing counterweights to the racing cars is very important.