If not a front wing then how about a splitter?
The section describing the modified class (5D) defines legal air dams as not being able to extend forward of the leading edge of the front bumper and they must follow the contour of the bumper so any effective splitter design is essentially foiled.
However, I don't see anything in the language governing altereds that prohibits the installation of a true wing forward of the bumper so that it's attached to the frame not the body.
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I also don't see any language that prohibits canard wings like those Lew Arrington used....although in the case of the canard wings the drag penalty may outweigh the increase in traction (or, to be more accurate, the increase in forward thrust).
Section 5.D.2 "Fuel Altered Coupe" says "no streamlining as described in section 4.CC is allowed unless specified." and section 4.CC.9 describes wings as "A special case of streamlining allowed only on streamliners, lakesters, modified roadsters and production bodies which had the wing as an option." Section 5.D.2 does explicitly allow streamlining, basically an air dam, blocking grill and headlight opening, rear spoiler etc... but wings, belly pans, roof mounted spoilers and more are explicitly off the table.
"streamlining
(′strēm′līn·iŋ)
(design engineering) The contouring of a body to reduce its resistance to motion through a fluid."
"streamline Definition stream·line (-līn′)
noun
the path, or a section of the path, of a fluid moving past a solid object
a contour with reference to its resistance, as to air
transitive verb -·lined′, -·lin′·ing
to make streamlined
adjective
streamlined"
Wings increase the resistance to motion through a fluid and therefore do not meet the definition of streamlining. Wings also interrupt the flow of a streamline.
Any rule which does not demonstrate an appropriate understanding of generally accepted definitions in science or physcis is thus subject to either rewriting or change.
In 1975, the Gates, Ward, and Wolfe lakester was classed as a C/Streamliner because its Top Fuel style rear wing was wider than the car's rear tread.
That same year, the first lakester to go 300 mph, the Les Leggitt car, was classed as a lakester because its Top Fuel style rear wing was narrower than the cars rear tread.
