Grand Prix Rejects

As the next few months appear more and more interesting for a notable person named May, I thought it interesting to go back in time a few decades and talk about the Formula One reject who could have changed motorsport engineering in 1956: Michael May.

An engineering student, May is credited with the first application of an inverse wing in a motorsport context. But why didn't his invention take off for another ten years?

Find out here!

Thanks Thomas, I really enjoyed the article! Good to see that such an important innovation was the brainchild of a reject!

Wow, he invented DRS too!

Where would the world be without Rejects

tommykl wrote:As the next few months appear more and more interesting for a notable person named May,

I will think you'll find it was Hammond and not May that crashed in Switzerland. Oh wait, not that May...

I smiled at the following in the article:

Michael soon abandoned the idea, unwilling to face continued rejection.

Ironic to then later appear on a Rejects website! Nice choice of word.