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No idea. Not all drivers weigh the same. Individual drivers weights may fluctuate through the year too but the car weight stays the same.What else could account for it? There's no way the two Mercedes cars started at different weights, yet Hamilton's came in over the limit and George was under. The only difference was the amount of tyre deg on their respective cars.
I'm open to suggestions as to other possible causes, but this is the only theory which has made sense so far.
Are they adding weights somewhere to the car to hit the final total?
It's probably a final check-in every race day to make sure car + driver hits the correct weight and if it's under's then top it up (however they might do that).
Clearly they cut it too close this race. Drivers can lose multiple kilos in water weight in a race. So 1.5kg could be from Russell's perspiration alone.