[CMOTD]

All my best handling cars are sidewinders. Gears revolving in the same direction, weight over the wheels etc. etc. I assume that anglewinders started as the motors of the day wouldn't fit between the wheels and running at an angle was the nearest thing. I can see no other technical reason for doing it as, is theory, the weight distribution becomes unbalanced.

The switch to anglewinder set up was partly due to the restriction in motor size that you can fit in sideways but also the fact that sidewinder gears are a large diameter and it doesn't need much tyre wear before they are scraping on the track.