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by john-e89 » Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:17 am
ben g wrote: ↑Fri Aug 31, 2018 4:15 pm
john-e89 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:47 pm
Personally I was a very very reluctant supporter of the halo brought in this year, I thought it spoilt the looks and ethos of open cockpit single seaters but if it stopped another incident like the Jules Bianchi tradegy I had to begrudgingly support it then after the Belgium GP who can argue against it? Who knows how C Leclerc would have fared without it, we’ll obviously never know but looking at all angles I think he would have been hurt definitely. Horrible looking frame but certainly does it job.
Except it wouldn't have stopped Jules Bianchi from dieing, so it's pointless using that as an argument for it. He died due to the sudden deceleration, not a hit to the head, according to the professionals.
I don't mind it anymore. Yes it looks terrible, but who really cares? F1 has become so boring, so it makes sense to add more boring and ugly stuff to the cars.
The point I’m making about the halo in Bianchi’s accident is that his helmet hit the counter weight, it didn’t rupture as it was a glancing blow, on the crane meaning the counter weight was low, therefore the halo would have taken the hit first along its side. As it’s curved in design who’s to say it wouldn’t have deflected the car enough to avoid it getting suddenly wedged by the air box and roll over hoop enough so that the car hit the absorbing barriers instead so taking the inertia out of the impact and preventing the sudden stop injury.
Nobody will ever know obviously but it’s hardly ‘pointless’, this accident was one of the main reasons, amongst others, why the halo was designed in the first place.
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