General Motors are said to be considering legal action against FOM, citing intellectual property rights to F1's dowforce producing technology.
After the invention of downforce-producing wings first applied to an Opel speed record car in the 1920s, the technology was taken up by Swiss racer/engineer Michael May in the '50s and thereafter by GM, whose programme gave us the be-winged Chaparral sports racers of the mid-60s.
In 1968 the technology found its way into F1 via Ferrari and Brabham, but only now has the money been sufficient enough for a lawsuit.
"We've got to thank Max on this one" a GM executive explained with a moth full of molars. "How does one hundred-billion sound?"
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