According to Peter Wright's book, an F1 car's braking is limited by driver strength at high speeds. I'll take a look tonight and see if he offers more specifics.
To compare a 3 man development team to companies such as Sony and AMD is, well...illepall
A Sony or AMD does gradually lose touch with the customer just due to their sheer size and rate of growth. With something like LFS, the rate of updates is bound to slow as things become more developed and the amount of time to make a change increases drastically. In the beginning, because there is very little defined, a few days work and you may have a suspension deformation model. However, 3-4 years down the road and those few days of work aren't even enough to make a small change in the damping response of that suspension model...