F1 stopped chasing the frontier of what's possible engineering wise back in the 80s. Cars were already potent enough then to exceed human capacity, even the ver

F1 stopped chasing the frontier of what's possible engineering wise back in the 80s. Cars were already potent enough then to exceed human capacity, even the very best drivers. F1 rule makers shifted to stuff they saw as the intersection of good racing and useful R&D for automakers. In fact there's almost no racing events that have a true open class engineering wise anymore. It's just too dangerous. Look up what happened during the Group B Rally era for examples of how it can go wrong and blow back.