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Adrian Newey's book, which I just finished, covered a lot about different driver personalities/styles and car problems. The car problems these days are almost always aero issues. He talked about problems where minor changes in ride height due to spring rate, braking, bumps, etc could wreck havoc on otherwise good aero setups which would then take a lot of wind tunnel, flo-vis-fluid, and CFD to figure out. He wrote that he McLaren's big problem was they picked different ideas from the other front running cars to build their car and ended up with a mess vs Newey who makes improvements on the previous year's design unless there's a need for a completely new design due to rules changes.

It was really interesting to read how much of a difference the teams would make race to race with new aero parts.
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