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Aerodynamics or mechanical engineering?
We’ve heard a lot from Ferrari and their paternal president in recent times about how unhappy they are that aerodynamics is so important in F1. Il Padrino has been cited regularly as complaining this is no good for car manufacturer’s as it is irrelevant to most of what they do in producing road cars.
This of course has nothing to do with the fact that Red Bull have in Newey, the King of the aero designers and due to lack of foresight on matters such as the wind tunnel and quality of their aero team. That said, aerodynamics on a Ferrari road car are not the ultimate priority.
That said, I have been involved in countless debates over what F1 should be trying to achieve with the design and technical regulations. We all fear the move towards a ‘spec’ series like Indycar because F1 has historically been about automotive prototyping and engineering.
