I can’t believe that Murray is letting him experiment on this build without seemingly having any experience of designing suspension.
Ah, he knows his stuff, he’s just a bit nervous. It’s not like designing a production car were you can use your experience and computer models (as shown in Ep1 or 2) to design a prototype and then test it for 2 years. He’s got to design and build it and then see how it performs in the real world. The question over the brace is as much a decision of preference as much of whether it’ll work or not – stiffness v weight, like every performance car ever built.
I’m sure he’s been kept up to speed with it, and if they were doing something he didn’t agree on, they’d been told, he used to work for Ron Dennis, I’m sure he could bend a couple of lads who seem in awe of him to his way of thinking.