Oulton Park and Kyalami.

[Chaswin]

A couple of photos showing the evolution off F1 wings in 1968 and 1969. The first photo shows a Lotus mechanic working on Jackie Oliver's Gold Leaf Lotus 49 at Oulton Park in 1968 with Graham Hill's sister car in the background, together with the Lotus 62 sports car. This was the peak of the ungainly high wings that made F1 cars look rather silly. In May 1969, Graham Hills car nearly killed him at the Spanish GP when the wing collapsed at high speed and Hill bounced off the armco, fortunately leaving him uninjured. As a direct result of Hill's crash, the high wings were banned following the Spanish meeting. The second photo shows Jackie Stewarts Matra MS80 at the Oulton Park Gold Cup in August 1969. This now sports a properly triangulated, cross braced and much lower wing that does not look as though it was about to fall off.