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@mmccarthy
If I was an F1 aero engineer I couldn't sleep at night with the guilt knowing that it would be people like me who have made the sport so much worse than it used to be!
Suspension & steering is my area of expertise, and it's as a result of the ridiculous amount of importance of aero in F1 that suspension design basically comprises of "Make sure all of your suspension crap is out of the way of the air flow", "What's that? You want a low nose to improve the suspension geometry? Tough shit, the aero guys want a high nose to improve the air flow", "Make sure that suspension at the rear is packaged as tighly as possible so we can make a nice aerodynamic body shape around it. What? I don't give a shit if it makes it impossible to adjust the springs/dampers!" etc.
I'm not bitter about it, honest.