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It could have been Brian Redman. When he first tried to get in the car at Spa, he accidently turned on the windshield wiper and it flew off the car! He also resused to drive the car at Zeltwig 69 until they promised him a good 'deal' for 1970, which he got.
During the LeMans '69 weekend, the FIA decided to put a ban on all movable areo aids. Porsche had gone to tremendous lengths to get the 917 homologated. While the FIA was rumored to be satisfied to be shown the same Ferrari 512's five different times, Porsche was required to line all 25 of the 917's up for inspection. Now, at the race the car was designed for, the FIA were trying to take away one of it's hard won advantages. Porsche insisted that the car was homologated that way and it would run that way if there were to be ANY factory Porsches in the race at all.
The orgainizers had a little discussion and Stommelen was sent out in the 917 with the flaps locked into place. The resulting demonstration was so scarey that the car was allowed to run the flaps as homologated. however, all the 908's were required to run with their flaps fixed. More of that famous FIA even-handed rules enforcement.
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