Spoilers. Once an extravagant madness

The first spoiler did not appear on a Formula 1 car. Vibrant orange, strikingly conspicuous, and relatively large compared to the compactness and lightness of the vehicle. It was mounted on a Porsche 550 RS driven by a 22-year-old private driver, Michael May, an engineering student who had entered the Nürburgring 1000 km. The year was 1956, and that strange car would have seemed like a joke if it hadn’t achieved significantly better lap times than the official Porsche cars. A real slap in the face considering it was the 1955 model on the day the Stuttgart-based company introduced the evolved version of the famous model to the track!