The threat of competition and a need to overcome physical or legislative limitations drive the advances, while the championship’s largely meritocratic nature ensures exceptional people are backed by immense financial resource to achieve exceptional advances.
Given F1 boasts a proud 70-plus-year history, not all innovations devised in that time have been deemed to be in the best interests of the championship. Many have been outlawed on the grounds of cost or safety, while some ideas were swiftly scrapped due to their potency that left the rest of the field chasing shadows.
