Weird, ugly, unseen, rare and bizarre experiments!

This section contains all kinds of weird and bizarre experiments! Some of them useful, but most of them proved to be useless!
There are pictures of experimental wings, sixwheelers, goofy devices, etc. Enjoy!

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Series
Description/track/info
Year
F2
Jochen Rindt driving a "plane" like Brabham at Albi.
Added: 29-FEB-04, Updated
1968
F1
Hunt's Mc Laren carrying an additional front wing.
Updated: 05-FEB-05
1978
F2

Jaboulle's F2 car with a double rear wing.
Added: 29-FEB-04

1976
F1
Patrick Neve and the bizarre looking Kauhsen
Added: 29-FEB-04, Updated: 19-APR-04
1978
F1
The famous March sixwheeler!
Added: 29-FEB-04, Updated: 19-APR-04
1977
F1
The "boomerang" Tyrrell.
Added: 03-MAR-04
1983
F1
Ferrari testing a mid-wing in early 1977.
Added: 29-FEB-04
1977
F1
Chris Amon testing his own F1-car...
Added: 29-FEB-04
1974
F1
Berta...
Added: 29-FEB-04
1975
F1
Brambilla in a March with a bizarre rear wing.
Added: 29-FEB-04
1975
F1
Some weird devices on the Ferrari 312T2.
Updated: 23-JAN-05
1976
F1
The Lotus 76 with a double shaped wing, and 2 brake pedals! (So four in total!)
Added: 29-FEB-04
1974
Indy 500
Some very weird racing cars for the Indy 500 line-up.
And I think that's where Williams got their inspiration!

Added: 29-FEB-04
1972
F2
Tambay's F2 car has something strange going on...
Added: 29-FEB-04
1974
F1
The Tyrrell team testing something out.
Added: 29-FEB-04
1975
F1
Some "rocket type" devices on the front wing of the Ferrari 312T.
Added: 29-FEB-04
1975
F1
The beautiful Arrows A2. Here experimenting with an unsuccesful rear wing
Updated: 05-FEB-05
1979
F1
Fittipaldi testing an experimantel rear wing configuration.
Added: 29-FEB-04
1974
F1
The Mc Laren M28.
Added: 29-FEB-04
1978
F1
The Tyrrell with a 'Lotus type nose'.
Added: 29-FEB-04
1973
CanAm
A huge front wing for the Lola T260 of Jackie Stewart.
Added: 29-FEB-04
1971
Aurora
The highly 'sharp nosed' Dywa.
Added: 29-FEB-04
1980
F1
The very fast Williams sixwheeler.
Added: 03-MAR-04, Updated: 19-APR-04
1982
F1
The Brabham BT48 with an Arrows A2 type rear wing.
Updated: 05-FEB-05
1979
F1
The Shadow of de Angelis with huge chimneys!
Added: 29-FEB-04, Updated: 19-APR-04
1979
F1
The 1979 Ensign with the radiators placed on the nose!
Updated: 05-FEB-05
1979
F1
Very rare pictures of the Mc Laren M27!
Updated: 20-AUG-04
1978
F1
Brabham tried something very strange, with the watercoolers placed just behind the front wheels.
Added: 15-MAR-04
1978
F1
The first prototype version of the Ferrari 312T3.
Added: 19-APR-04
1978
F1
Spy pictures of the very first Alfa Romeo F1 car!
Added: 15-MAR-04, updated 19-APR-04
1978
F2
An open wheeler made out of wood, and a strange wind shield...
Added: 19-APR-04
1967
F1
And who thought it was Toleman that invented the strange double front wing? Tyrrell had the same idea during practice sessions in early 1983
Added: 19-APR-04
1983
CanAm
The very strange Chaparral 2 J, an invention long before the Brabham fan car...
Added: 19-MAR-04
1970
CanAm
Another strange looking CanAm race car: the AVS-Shadow 'go-cart'
Added: 19-MAR-04
1970
Group 6

Vaclav Kral and his ideas to develop a sixwheeler Group 6 car by using 'kinetic energy'
Added: 13-APR-04

1980
F1
The first appearance on track (Jarama) of the famous Lotus 80 wing car without wings :)
Added: 19-APR-04
1979
Le Mans
During the 24 hours Le Mans race of 1950, this strange Cadillac entered the race. They where classified 11th!
Added: 19-APR-04
1950
Indy 500
Some various bizarre looking cars that participated in the Indy 500 race.
Updated: 23-JAN-05
1970 and unknown
F1
The Ferrari 312T8... an eightwheeler, altough I am pretty sure this must be a hoax!!!!
Added: 19-NOV-04
1975
Indy 500
The sixwheeler Clancy raced at the Indy 500.
Added: 28-DEC-04
1948
F1
Tyrrell tested this double rear wing during wintertesting at Paul Ricard, France
Added: 28-DEC-04
1981
F1
First appearence of the famous barge boards during the German GP of 1985
Added: 29-DEC-04
1985
F1
Huge mid-wing on Cathy Muller's F3 car.
Added: 29-DEC-04
1985
FFord
Bizarre shaped FFord car, constructed by H. Spowers.
Added: 29-DEC-04
1985
F1
April fool's? The Lotus Sixwheeler... but the magazine where I got it from (Auto Hebdo) being published on April 1st, 1976, it most likely is... :)
Added: 22-JAN-05
1976
F1
Mc Laren and Hesketh tried a double rear wing out during practice sessions in 1976...
Added: 23-JAN-05
1976
F1
During the Swedish Grand Prix, some teams tested an additional front wing.
Added: 23-JAN-05
1976
F1
The first mid-wing in F1?
Added: 23-JAN-05
1976
Le Mans
Rondeau's famous sixwheeler Le Mans racing car!
Added: 26-JAN-05
1977
Le Mans
Dome Zéro Cosworth DFV
Added: 05-FEB-05
1979
F1
The Maki F102A: one of the ugliest F1 cars ever made
Added: 05-FEB-05
1976
F2

Un ultra low rear wing, used by Surer on the March 792, but without success...
Added: 05-FEB-05

1979
F1
Very huge side cowlings on the Renault RS01
Added: 05-FEB-05
1978
F1
Un ultra low rear wing, used by Surer on the March 792, but without success...
Added: 05-FEB-05
1976
F1
Outboardbrakes on the Brabham BT48??????
Added: 05-FEB-05
1979
F1
Tyrrell doing some experimental 'things' during wintertesting at Paul Ricard
Added: 26-FEB-05
1983
F1
Huge extra front wing on the Arrows A5
Added: 26-FEB-05
1982
Indy 500
Eagle AAR
Added: 27-FEB-05
1980
F3
Barron F3
Added: 27-FEB-05
1984
F1
Ferrari 126C2
Added: 27-FEB-05
1983
Proto
Gebhardt JC02: bizarre looking Group C car
Added: 27-FEB-05
1983
F1
The ugly Ligier JS21
Added: 27-FEB-05
1983
F1
An additional front wing on the Lotus 81
Added: 27-FEB-05
1980
F1
The famous Lotus 88
Added: 27-FEB-05
1981
F1
Huge 'roll bar' :)
Added: 27-FEB-05
1983
Proto
Wingless CanAm Mc Rae racing car
Added: 27-FEB-05
1980
F1
15" inch front wheels on the Brabham
Added: 27-FEB-05
1980
F1
Double rear wing on the Renault R30B
Added: 27-FEB-05
1982
F1
The Arrows team tested some very weird skirts, but it was a total fiasco...
Added: 27-FEB-05
1980
       




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