It is up in news today that Formula 1 drivers are pushing for expanded cockpit head security and higher-execution tires from 2017. Amazing Prix Drivers’ Association director Alexander Wurz said drivers consistently conceded to the “quick usage” of head security.
The Austrian, 41, included the drivers additionally agreed needing to “cause and bolster Pirelli to develop a tire fit for most extreme assault racing”. Drivers hate the current tires as they can once in a while push level out on them.
In any case, they once in a while stand up freely subsequent to being cautioned to keep their considerations private. Governing body the FIA has been seeking after methods for shielding drivers’ heads in open cockpits from frontal effects for a few years; however the issue has come into more honed center after a progression of passing crosswise over motorsport. In July a year ago, previous Marussia driver Jules Bianchi kicked the bucket as an aftereffect of extreme head wounds supported in an accident at the Japanese Grand Prix 10 months prior. Only a month later, ex-F1 driver Justin Wilson was killed in the wake of flying so as to be struck garbage amid an IndyCar race in America. A few unique thoughts were tried a year ago and Wurz, talking in a selective meeting with BBC Sport, said the GPDA felt F1 was presently in a position where one particular configuration could be received. The drivers are sponsorship a gadget known as the ‘radiance’, which includes two bended arms extending forward from the back of the cockpit and angling around to meet at the front, where a vertical strut bolsters the structure and gives some assurance from flying garbage.
Wurz said, “The research the FIA experts have done is very thorough and the process has brought forward a clear solution. Now the drivers feel it’s time to implement the extra protection at the latest in 2017. Obviously structural changes are required to the chassis but, with almost a one-year lead time, I don’t see any technical person speaking against such substantial safety improvements, especially given the last big accidents in open-wheel racing involved head injuries. So, all the drivers, and I, hope that passing the additional head protection will be a formality.”
A senior source said: “To a man, the drivers say: ‘We are driving far below our own personal limits – and those of the cars – because of the tyres. It’s not fun and we don’t like it.'”
