His point about f1 being overly restricted by rules is legitimate, but I am neither a fan of his design, nor do I believe it is representative of a race car tru

His point about f1 being overly restricted by rules is legitimate, but I am neither a fan of his design, nor do I believe it is representative of a race car truly optimized for speed. Full disclosure: I have a Ph.d. in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and I've also raced open-wheel cars at several tracks, such as Laguna Seca. While presently F1 cars are certainly arbitrarily restricted by rules, several of his design decisions strike me as just as bad. For instance, the open-wheel design is going to create tons of pressure drag. If you were designing a car from the ground up for speed, I sincerely doubt they would not have the aero kit cover the wheels. More than that, the open-wheel design is also dangerous, because if the tyres touch the results are often catastrophic, with the cars flying into the air and the flailing tyres creating a tremendous hazard. So that also discourages passing. In many motorsports, bumping into the cars nearby does not result in both being completely disabled.