One thing that was particularly interesting during my time was improving performance through the blown exhaust.
We’ve played with exhaust positions at various times over the years. The regulation change that came in 1995 was that you weren’t allowed to see the exhaust exiting from underneath the car, so most people responded by either putting the exhaust out the back, which is what we did at McLaren in 1998 and ’99, or through the top bodywork, which is what Ferrari started doing in ’98.
Around that time I realised you could position the exhaust exit underneath to blow the diffuser, within the so-called
