This Grainy 8mm Footage Captures Some of the Earliest Winged Sprint Cars Ever Built

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In the 1950s, the study and application of aerodynamic principles in race cars was a fairly novel concept. For the most part, aero was a slippery subject: Streamlined cars surely sliced through the air cleaner like airplanes and were theoretically faster. While this was in fact true of cars that ran in a straight line, […]

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I think the first winged dirt track racer I ever saw was an old Super Modified running at 81 Speedway here in Wichita.