{"id":493604,"date":"2014-01-01T00:19:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T08:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=13683"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:50:17","slug":"big-wings-large-cojones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/big-wings-large-cojones\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Wings, Large Cojones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black Jack and his Brabham biplane are evidence of the aerodynamic wilderness in which the Grand Prix teams found themselves once \u201cThe Wing\u201d worked its way into F1\u2019s consciousness.
Photo: Chris Willows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Red Bull gives you wings\u201d says the advertising strap line for the energy drink that funds not only the eponymous Formula One team but also, seemingly, virtually every other dangerous endeavor in the pantheon of world sport. However brilliant the aerodynamic properties of the Red Bull series of World Championship-winning cars, they owe their corner-hugging prowess to a short, bright period of innovation in 1968 when the wings grew high and the drivers had the \u201cequipment\u201d to master their unruly machines.<\/p>\n

This was the era of high wings that F1 designers adopted in search of grip and performance from mid-1968 until early 1969.\u00a0 Yet downforce-creating wings were not a product of the fertile F1 mind: the man who must take the major credit for demonstrating the principle is an innovative genius from Midland, Texas, Jim Hall. Yet even before Hall sprang his beautiful Chaparral 2E on an unsuspecting grid of Can-Am contenders in 1966, wings had been deployed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n