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I imagine that they wouldn't want that figure to be too well understood.
I am struggling to recall who it was now, possible Gerhard Berger? Anyway- he was, at the end of his career, judged to be too tall due to his helmet interfering with airflow into the airbox that was (normally) above the drivers head.
Also a few years ago Newey offered the McLaran drivers (I think one was Montoya, might have been just before him) a choice between losing 6kg and having power steering, or staying the same weight but not having PS.
This tension between size of driver and overall weight/dimensions of the car is nothing new- just as it has been suggested by some that child-sized astronauts make a lot more sense I am sure that most F1 designers would be over the moon if their pair of drivers were each 3' tall and weighed 4 stone.