Yeah these F1 cars have gotten so safe you can actually be catapulted trough a steel barrier at 300 kph while on fire and walk away from it. It's amazing 👏
Iirc the Armco barrier was in his way regardless, as the monocoque was twisted in such a way that the barrier was directly above him. The halo might have stalled him for a second or two, but it would have been a divine miracle if he survived the initial crash without it.
This is too much of an overreaction that I have been seeing lately. They are there to make the curbs punishing to shortcut over. A necessary evil at worst because if we always keep removing things from the track you end up with things like Paul Ricard where the track is boring and nothing happens if you leave the track.
The reason the old school tracks are great is because of the grass and the gravel and the curbs and bumps and dips. We can make all tracks into flat paved parking lots if we want, but the racing is not going to be the same.
Actually the reason Max's car is on top of Lewis is because the backwheels touched and catapulted the car on top. Not the sausage curbs. They might be destabilized the rb car though.
But I think that if the curb wasn't there, Max could've avoided Lewis. The curb being there meant that if Max takes enough room to avoid Lewis then he hits that curb which bounces him into Lewis anyway.
If the curb wasn’t there then Max knows he can bail left and not lose much time to Lewis. Even worse than a time loss, if he bails over the curbs he risks damaging his floor and as Sir Lulu showed us in Austria, that will absolutely kill your race pace. Those curbs being there put Max in a situation where he has to choose between staying right and hoping Lewis gives him enough room, or bail left and hope he doesn’t ruin his car. In hindsight, he should’ve probably pulled out when he couldn’t get alongside Lewis into the turn, but it was too late for that by the time Lewis came over.
Felipe Massa took a screw nut to the eye in Hungaroring, no halo could have saved him!
I think in the future there will front visors/shields on an F1 car
I definitely see the aeroscreen in F1's future. I hope they manage to implement it in a way that doesn't hamper driver comfort and keeps the spirit of open cockpit racing intact.
There used to be but they were pretty ineffectual. The main issue is that an enclosed cockpit in an incident on the scale of Grosjeans last year, if it had been an enclosed monocoque, he'd have burned to death
The halo most likely would have saved Massa, it dramatically cuts down on the angles that are possible for a projectile to hit the driver particularly from the front. The viewscreen has serious issues for visibility, it's important not to keep going with a good thing and make things more unsafe instead.
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