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Originally Posted by Big time
If Ferrari and Lamborghini only focused on low drag and downforce their cars would look like this
They make a big tradeoff for aesthetics so their cars look quite different from the depicted model.
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Aesthetics, dynamic performance, cooling, Centre of Gravity... The list goes on.
Case in point is any car that targets the mass-production high speed record. Why don't they use that low-drag design? Because the power needed to reach those speeds also required a huge amount of cooling. Something that really dogged the Bugatti Veyron throughout its development. You also have to make it a perform at all speeds upto that max speed, so that's low centre of mass, suspension geometry and downforce.