There’s supposedly a lot of truth to that in general. Vehicle dynamics wasn’t really a thing until we had well developed aerodynamics, and there were a lot of aerodynamics engineers looking for work post-WW2. So, we went from just kind of winging it in chassis/suspension development to actually systematically working out how to design it because of that knowledge transfer.
There’s supposedly a lot of truth to that in general. Vehicle dynamics wasn’t really a thing until we had well developed aerodynamics, and there were a lot of aerodynamics engineers looking for work post-WW2. So, we went from just kind of winging it in chassis/suspension development to actually systematically working out how to design it because of that knowledge transfer.