Not necessarily, but it does make it more likely; that’s why I wrote “may”. If the design has skirts to generate more downforce, designers will decrease downforce generated elsewhere.
Having said that, I think skirts were forbidden more because they make driving a car through corners too easy and races too dull than out of safety concerns.
Having said that, I think skirts were forbidden more because they make driving a car through corners too easy and races too dull than out of safety concerns.