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Old 12-02-2009, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by car4jim View Post
I notice the wing on the white car seems to change angle depending on whether the car is cornering or in a straight away. Any idea how the wing was actuated? What was the control logic?
I took a quick look at the Chaparral page on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral_Cars

It sounds like the 2E was designed to have an adjustable wing, but the FIA banned Hall from using it. As the race progressed you could start to see the wing on both cars start flapping around.

The wiki page was an interesting read.
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