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[Elio de Maky]

Hi, help my, please

100% Silverstone, but test ?? or practice GP ??


Silverstone, Great Britain GP race, wing stabilization ??


Thanks

[arttidesco]

What ever the black thing was it was also seen on the other side :-)

[BRG]

Ah, the good old days, when F1 cars were elegant.

[Geoff E]

Ah, the good old days, when F1 cars were elegant.

Bits of them anyway.

I see no elegance in the left half of the first picture.

[RonPohl]

Looks like lots of real estate for sponsors.

[Languedoc]

They were supposed to reduce turbulences created by the huge rear wheels.

They were used only in practice by Brambilla, as they were declared illegal.

[Teapot]

Drawing of the same car from an old Autosprint annual: no sign of the black tab, but there's some sort of triangular frame to keep the tunnels from bending downwards

[eldougo]

That was the percursor to the Peter Brock " Energy Polarizer".

[Graham Clayton]

March's plan to hold tailgate parties on the rear wing were quickly rebuffed by the FIA.

[john winfield]

March's plan to hold tailgate parties on the rear wing were quickly rebuffed by the FIA.

Yes, so they had to resort to something more traditional:

http://www.alanraine...k/RusBrock2.jpg





Thanks to Russell Brockbank, and Alan Raine...

[alansart]

Yes, so they had to resort to something more traditional:

http://www.alanraine...k/RusBrock2.jpg


Thanks to Russell Brockbank, and Alan Raine...

A more modern version....



.....I really wanted to do this at the time but resorted to Photoshop instead

[john aston]

I remember watching that car on Hanger Straight- you could the turbulence coming off the wing!