Underweight A523 F1 car will offer ballast benefit

Teams have long used ballast to optimise weight distribution from track to track, although in recent years with the hybrid cars it has proved harder for them to get below the minimum limit in order to take advantage of it.

Last year, most teams were significantly overweight and all have stressed that they have worked hard to lose weight from their cars over the winter.

However, Alpine is the first team to state in public that it is under the 798kg limit with its…