Top in line Formula 1 drivers have sponsored the choice to present the disputable “halo” head insurance framework next season. Four-time champion Sebastian Vettel said the game would be “uninformed and dumb” not to utilize the gadget.
Fernando Alonso said it would have helped in “a large number of the lethal mishaps” in engine racing in the previous 15 years. Lewis Hamilton said it “doesn’t look great” yet he “unquestionably doesn’t contend against it”. He said, “We are moving towards a closed cockpit. That would look better. There are some great concepts online with closed cockpits. When you think about the things that have happened with drivers being hit on the head, it is kind of crazy the head is almost the most precious part of the body and it is exposed.”
Vettel added: “Overall, you need to understand it is a decision that helps us in the car in case something goes very wrong.
“I can understand if people say it doesn’t belong on an F1 car, but times are changing.” “If you offer the system and the protection it gives us to Justin Wilson, he would take it and we would take it to save his life,” Vettel said.
The Spaniard added: “If we could go back in time and save some of our colleagues’ lives, we would be all happy. That is the first and only thing we should talk about.
“The aesthetics, I don’t care too much. F1 has changed so much even from my first year in 2001. The cars are so different – the height of the front nose, the height of the cockpit area. Forty to 50 years ago they did not have seat belts.
“For me there is no question – I’m happy to implement any extra head protections. If the FIA studies and develops the halo, if this is the most effective way to protect the head of the drivers, it is more than welcome.”
