Photo Gallery «Technology in race cars (26): Matra MS 640 - The low-flyer»
At the end of the 1960s, the Grande Nation was once again longing for a home victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Matra could have ended the thirty-year drought in 1969 with the particularly streamlined MS 640, but the project ended in a short-distance flight and a fireball after not even one test lap. This article from the series "Technology in racing cars" tells of the beginnings of the Matra MS 640 and the pitfalls of aerodynamics that proved to be its undoing.
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