Formula 1 cars have got enormous. Look at this, here is the length and width of Formula 1 cars over the past 70 years.

Since the late 2000s, F1 cars have grown and grown. With them now being both wider and longer than a Ford F150 pickup truck.

And this has to be a bad thing, the cars may be quicker now - but they don’t look nearly as fast as they used to.

So I wanted to find out why these cars have got so big - and how there is still hope for smaller cars in the future. Let’s dive in.

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But first, why does it actually matter that these cars are getting bigger and heavier?

They are the fastest racing cars out here, lap times are faster than they have ever been, the cars are more capable and are quite rightly pushing the envelope of what is physically possible.

And from the outside, the speed is absolutely astounding. But, from onboard - the cars are so planted that it doesn’t look like they are going any faster than a GT3 car or something like that.

If you look back only a decade or so, the cars looked on edge - the drivers were wrestling them more, and they looked a real challenge.

And larger cars also make it more difficult to pass. Firstly, a wider car makes fills more of the track, making it easier to defend.

Taking this to the extremes, look at MotoGP - they have to defend by just being faster - as you can’t block very much of the track.

Whereas, with current Formula 1 - there are very few places on the Monaco circuit where you could actually fit two cars side by side.

But in the interest of not being, ‘it was better in the old days’ people - let’s dive into the reasoning.