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Originally Posted by 7th gear
i've heard that a real spoiler can be controlled by the driver. something about variations in wind, direction, drag ...etc. can anyone confirm?
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Every racing organization that I know of has banned the use of wings that can be adjusted on-track, whether by the driver, or by computer, whatever.
The wings used by Jim Hall on the Chaparral cars in the '60's initially were controlled by the driver. The back edge tilted up on braking, and then levelled out when the driver came off the brakes. I think it took about one race meeting before SCCA banned moveable wings.
Hall was one of the true innovators in motorsport, regardless of whether May had a virtually identical wing design several years earlier. May's wing was immediately banned, too, for "safety" reasons, the claim being that it interfered with the vision of following drivers, and was a distraction.