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Originally Posted by Richard Casto
Static analysis has fewer variables, so it's easier to perform. This leaves room for that magical intuitive insights that can occur within the human brain and define genius. This makes up for the fact that teams can't model everything due to restrictions of either funding or the rules (such as CFD and tunnel limits). Given enough time and money the cars could be accurately modeled via CFD as the fluid dynamic equations are understood.
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I wonder whether banning so much testing actually sped up the accuracy of F1 teams' CFD, but perhaps they would have caught up by now and even had better CFD due to a constant corrobation and feedback loop of CFD - testing - CFD - testing.