Technical innovation has always been at the heart of Formula 1, but history doesn’t tend to remember the ideas that failed as fondly as the landmark technological leaps that are rightly celebrated.
Even so, there are countless examples of concepts that on paper looked great, but that didn’t translate to performance on the track and were quietly abandoned.
From ideas that hit their performance ceiling almost immediately to other ‘monstrous’ concepts, our latest video highlights 10 examples of innovations that should have worked but for various reasons didn’t.
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