@Jeep1: ...Cobra und Shelby waren es auch nicht...
Es geht um ein wirklich ordentliches Bügelbrett, so wie dieses, aber halt älter:

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The aerofoil admittedly turned the Spyder into a silly-looking device (picture supplied by Pieter de Vos) and so it was greeted with all-round laughs in the paddock of the 1956 Nürburgring sportscar race. It got past scrutineering and then made some eyes grow very wide by posting 4th fastest time in practice, outpacing the likes of Fangio and Behra. Remember, this was a production 550 suddenly keeping up with the beefed-up works Spyders. Obviously worried, Porsche boss Hüschke von Hanstein lodged a protest and managed to move the organizers into deeming it "unsafe".
But Michel (who was born on 18th August 1934 in Stuttgart, Germany) is best known as the first man to improve cornering speeds through the use of downforce, ten years before Jim Hall's winged Chaparrals appeared. At the age of 21, he brought his privately-entered Porsche 550 Spyder to the 1956 Nurburgring 1000 km race fitted with an enormous mid-mounted wing and went so quickly in practice that the Porsche factory team manager supported those who argued successfully for the removal of its wing. Why on earth they didn't hire him on the spot is anybody's guess! What is most extraordinary is the fact that the Nurburgring is a relatively slow-speed track - the first F1 experiments with wings were only carried out at high-speed tracks like Spa, and they were primarily aimed at improving stability by reducing lift rather than improving cornering speeds by imposing downforce (the wings were too small initially for this). Michel was a true visionary whose talents were sadly not fully realised.
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