The stealthy and mysterious Boomerang shaped rear wing of the 1983 Tyrrell 012 was not the brainchild of a hypothetical Australian engineer, but rather the attempt of an English designer, Maurice Philippe, to circumvent the regulations limiting the area of the rear wings on F1 cars.
The idea which seemed brilliant at the base, namely to maximize the surface of the rear wing while remaining within the regulatory dimensions just to keep the turbo cars pace unfortunately did not give any significant result on track.
The
car received its first racing baptism in qualifying for the Austrian
Grand Prix on the Zeltweg roller coaster, but was immediately abandoned.
There
was a time when original ideas had only real life tracks to show if
they were on the right path, and all journalists and spectators could be
astonished witnesses of weird engineers imagination. Today most of the
revolutionary inventions in F1 are unfortunately simulated on a
computer, then tested in wind tunnels before being put into practice, which erases a good part of the audacity and originality of the initial ideas .
The charm of artisanal F1 has gone with technological development, just
as other areas of our daily lives ...
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