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There comes a point where abstracting a full vehicle model back to a bicycle becomes more work than dealing with a full vehicle model. From what you say on the software side carsim would do, or matlab with the vdyn toolbox. or roll your own in octave.

There are many alternatives.

Book wise

https://www.amazon.com/Multibody-Systems-Approach-Vehicle-Dynamics/dp/0080994253

and/or milliken and/or dixon

I know that Adrian Newey (Red Bull Chief) wrote a book called "how to build a car" that i just seen at my friends home. I don't know how technical is it honestly but you can take a look at sinopsis or something.

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Edit: Here you go, a simple google search https://www.amazon.es/New-Directions-Race-Car-Aerodynamics/dp/0837601428/ref=bmx_3/261-8060612-2615810?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0837601428&pd_rd_r=90dd1353-f1d6-4d48-9e93-0dd3a7bd13c1&pd_rd_w=hcxA2&pd_rd_wg=Uxjji&pf_rd_p=37575520-de40-4d12-8f23-8dd416dd87ab&pf_rd_r=YZNH96T8VJ6051VB8B6D&psc=1&refRID=YZNH96T8VJ6051VB8B6D

Well some teams have definitely started to catch up with the times from a software tech perspective..

For ex. , McLaren has a sponsor called 'automation anywhere' who happen to be one of the biggest rpa (robotic process automation) players around, and their software tool helps McLaren to do several calculations on the race day which otherwise could've resulted in shit ton of manual work.

here's the link to official announcement

I am sure almost all of the teams would use some similar technology fabric but understandably wouldn't advertise them out in the open I guess.

I personally liked Theory of Wing Sections, by I. Abbott and A von Doenhoff (Amazon), it's a bit old and definitely not easy to read (tons of equations) but I still found it useful to understand certain aspects of Aerodynamics.

Not really a thing, I was trying to make the “lateral fluid percussion” model sound more interpretable. But it’s a hammer that smacks a tube of water that transduces a pressure wave onto a rat brain:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Lateral-fluid-percussion-brain-injury%3A-a-15-year-Thompson-Lifshitz/1c6137f93edca62fb47f994e6ea31fc7a0263562/figure/0

I would start with something lik Incompressible Flow by Panton to get the overall basics and then move into more specialized stuff in race cars like Race Car Aerodynamics by Katz.

If you can understand italian... https://www.amazon.it/Formula-prototipi-progettare-competizione-illustrata/dp/8879114026/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=ZPW8TM1882PM&keywords=Formula+uno+libro+tecnico&qid=1652947614&sprefix=formula+uno+libro+tecnico%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-4

I've no idea how but my final year project is online and I did mine on the front wing

https://www.slideshare.net/JoshStevens7/design-of-a-formula-one-front-wing-for-the-2014-season-with-regulations

Hope you find it helpful 👍🏻

How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer

by Adrian Newey

lots of stuff about his life and F1 in the 90s-00s, including the Seena-Head era. He's surprisingly mum about Kimi though, for some reason, which as a Kimi fan left me wanting for more.

500TB is a lot of data but comparisons to DVDs designed in 1995 is kind of silly. Compare it to modern storage formats like a 20TB hard drive.

20TB hard drives are out for around $500 each.

You can buy 25 of them and get 500TB for around $12,500 and carry them around in 2 of these small suitcases.

https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-External-Multi-Protection-Carrying-Briefcase/dp/B0714BK6RX/

This ordinary looking PC case can hold 18 hard drives and costs $200

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-7-xl/black/

“Beast”, about the Ilmor engine that was run in the Indy 500, is excellent. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beast-Secret-Ilmor-Penske-Engine-Shocked/dp/1642340103/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=beast+penske&qid=1633586988&qsid=260-3486682-4676060&s=books&sr=1-1&sres=1642340103%2CB00NYJHVTC

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Sense-Squiggly-Lines-Christopher/dp/0983259313/ref=asc_df_0983259313/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=383035120316&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8654729882624792490&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvq...

No, an airbox is still useful. The reason is not ram air, which really is a negligible effect until you get to quite high speeds, but rather the Helmholtz effect. If you read about intake design and optimization, the Helmholtz resonance effect can be exploited to increase the amount of air relative to the RPM of the engine. Since we now have a compressor in front of the intake manifold, the resonance becomes a multiple of compressor speed and pulsing.

The compressor still faces backpressure from the intake manifold which will cause it pulse similarly to an NA engine's backpressure (or rather decrease in negative pressure, less negative) in the intake.

Here's a good read:

https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Exhaust-Systems-Engineering-Performance/dp/0837603099/

"How Cars Work" by Tom Newton was what I read when I started taking auto tech in highschool around 2009-2010. This was incredibly helpful, as I knew absolutely nothing about cars compared to about 16-17 of my classmates, and this got me up to 80% speed or so. I didn't even know what a camshaft was before I took the class or read this book lol

The Carroll Smith Tune/Engineer/Prepare/Drive to Win books are extremely good for the particulars when it comes to building and prepping a car for racing, and are must-have introductory readings for anyone looking for to Formula Student or Formula SAE.

I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, as I’ve not read it myself - but It’s on my wish list: Adrian Newy: how to build a car. Although it’s the perspective of a designer, books like these contain m references where you can dig deeper in the material.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Car-Autobiography-Greatest/dp/000819680X/ref=nodl_

If I were you, this is where i would most likely start. It’s about deep diving references