1959 - Columbus Motor Speedway - First Winged Racecar - Columbus, OH
On 4/20/2019 10:25 PM, a425couple wrote:
1959 - Columbus Motor Speedway - First Winged Racecar - Columbus, OH
Michael May, Porsche 550, 1956:
http://type550.com/racing/drivers/michel-may/
On 4/20/2019 8:34 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:
On 4/20/2019 10:25 PM, a425couple wrote:Very interesting.
1959 - Columbus Motor Speedway - First Winged Racecar - Columbus, OH
Michael May, Porsche 550, 1956:
http://type550.com/racing/drivers/michel-may/
Thank you for that.
May 1956
"When May’s car proved faster than The Werks Porsches, Porsche
racing boss, Huschke von Hanstein lodged a protest for the wing
to be banned, under the pretext that it was unsafe and obscured
the vision of following drivers and threatened to pull all four
Werks cars from the race. The officials backed down under the
influence of Porsche, banning the modification."
So, sounds like it was a Steward's decision. Never
written, but nobody else challenged it or tried it,
until Ferrari in F1 tried it some at Belgium in 1968.
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