Once upon a time, F1 designers were actually allowed to use their imagination to innovate
Of course many of the most successful innovations end up getting banned sooner rather than later, but at least they had the opportunity to try. As an aside, Keke Rosberg's F1 championship in 1982 was one of the clearest cases ever of "to finish first, first you must finish"?
No, that picture up top is not some kind of weirdo photochop. It’s a real prototype F1 car, the last six-wheeler. Oddly, it set few a track records, though it never raced.