Update too slow ?

To honestly say what I think - and I hope you don't mind:

I don't like it. Thats also not what you try to achieve in real live. No designer is going to develop such a specific car. The goal is always to design a fast car - nothing more, nothing less. Fast car is always a fast car and those things do not necessarily rely on each other or in other words: A car being fast on slow tracks, can be a bloody fast car on fast tracks as well.

It might happen, that you find out, that your car is specifically fast on this or that and try to improve that weakness within one season, but thats never a point of next years development goal (although you might learn a thing that of course might be considerable for future developments.

Shortly said: I don't want us to get away to far from real world. The game should be as playable by "thinking" as it can be. Its already special in terms of tires, that have to get used and such things. Thats ok, but I don't like further special stuff added when not necessary making it hard for beginners to understand without reading 50 pages of docu.

Although at the same time, reality doesn't dictate that there will ever be a 'perfect' car which can be designed here by getting all parts to 100%. I don't think that the most realistic features will always work in a gaming environment, and vice versa, but I think with more refinement and discussion, then a better conclusion can be determined :)

This.

An option to build a fast style McLaren or Mercedes (great top speed but slightly slower through corners), a high downforce car like a Red Bull (fast through corners but struggling to gain any benefit from even a DRS) or a more balanced set up like a Ferrari (good at everything but excelling in nothing).

I like that last idea.

It would be nice to have our drivers comment on the car.  "We need more downforce" or "Grip at the rear end" and so on. With that kind of information you can alter you cardesign according to their information. With that in mind you need to have a plan with your car, drivers and team overall. It makes the design of the car more complex.