I would suggest that it was fairly close to being spot on, so perhaps no actual "learning" is required, just an adaption of existing dynamics.
Your average club racer will trial and error his (or her) way with all sorts of addition weighting and compensation all over the chassis till a neutral point is found, but no self respecting engineer would - you have to go mathematical - that's where manufacturers come in.
A car weighted up ~200g over minimum will have more polar inertia, will pitch and roll more and will require more traction effort from the tyres to get the whole car moving. Doesn't add up to me....... just my thoughts.
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