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I have always wondered if what did for the garagistas was the reliance on computers to refine and design. This negated the maverick genius that underpinned teams like Lotus both because the same end result could be achieved by brute force computing power (a bit like the first chess computers won by testing every possible move) and because the result could then be refined to the nth degree more easily. The essential difference between teams then became the amount of computing power they were able to deploy, which includes very high-precision computer-controlled parts manufacture.
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