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Not sure.
I think they used high wings because of advantages in cornering and not to counteract the rules.
As we are at it it's quite amazing that aerodynamic advantage went so late to F1.
I am reffering to Mr Michael May from Austria.
He put adjustable wing on his Porsche Spyder, and that's not all.
It got endplates something that wasn't that obvious then.
His Spyder in this configuration made better time that Porsches prepared by factory team.
It all went up to a point that Porsche made official claim that the wing is dangerous.
So easy, if You can't beat them You just pull all the stops and go official.
But as history shows in F1 high wings didn't fare much better.
Crashes of Mr Hill and Mr Rindt on the very same spot but separated by some laps in Spain GP at Montjuic in 1969 put end to them.
Off course we can shoot the breeze arguing whether the failures of wings in both cars were due to the lightweight design for which Mr Chapman was well known for, but...
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