[Video] is this the strangest F1 car ever to drive at FOS?
Formula 1 engineers love a bit of downforce, especially if it gives them an excuse to add an extra wing to proceedings. There’s no better example of bonkers boffin thinking than the Monaco wing deployed on the Arrows A22.
The raised nose wing on the V10-powered A22 – driven by Jos Verstappen during the 2001 season – is undoubtedly one of F1’s ugliest and rarest design features.
It was revealed for the slow, slippery, winding Monaco streets by both the Arrows and Jordan teams, but mercifully for the purists, was banned by the FIA on safety grounds; making this footage of the A22’s run during the 2011 Festival of Speed one of the only times the wing was driven in anger against the clock.