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    [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjzMUKFVR5g"]2017 British Grand Prix | Qualifying Highlights - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0WHNqwDjXc"]2017 British Grand Prix | Race Highlights - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    I'm confused again...

    FIA pushes through 'halo' for 2018 debut (gpupdate.net)
    Full article here: http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/356106/fia-pushes-through-halo-for-2018-debut/
     
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    This is wrong. No one likes it, not the fans, not the drivers, not the teams. The FIA is playing nanny. With all the talk of changing engines to something with more noise and mandating certain changes for the looks of the car for the fans. Adding the halo just screws it all up. Lets just close the cockpit up add a fire suppression system and AC. It will be safer and more comfortable. Hammy can hang a mirrored ball and Kimmi can have a wet bar. Maybe that's too far.
     
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    I wonder how it affects the airflow to the airbox and over the sidepods. Someone will find a way to exploit it though.
     
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    I don't care for it either, but I don't care for driver's being killed even more. With the halo it still looks like a piece of debris could find it's way in there pretty easily. Not sure halo is the right answer.
     
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    I'll paraphrase something I read elsewhere.

    The FIA decided to solve a problem. At some point the debate over whether that problem actually needed to be solved ended. I believe that point was way back when Bianchi died but the point is now moot; the FIA decided the problem, whatever anyone thinks of it, will be addressed and a solution implemented.

    Given this fact/inevitability, the FIA should have said something like "If you don't like our solution, bring us something better. Here's the deadline, get to work and be part of the solution or live with whatever we come up with."

    The teams have, collectively, hundreds of the world's top vehicular structural engineers and aerodynamicists, they could figure it out if they wanted to but my guess is they all sort of assumed that if they didn't want this problem solved then all they had to do is ignore it and vote against it. Trouble with that stance is the FIA was determined to do something and when it was time to make a decision the only option left to the teams, etc, was to choose from among the solutions available.....

    They'd already agreed to push the implementation off from 2017 to 1018 so they knew it was inevitable unless the FIA changed their minds. My guess is now they'll all now start scrambling to come up with better solutions or modifications to improve the halo.
     
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    It just seems that it would delay the driver getting out in a hurry or the corner workers trying to get him out.
     
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    That could be a real issue. Also I don't believe the halo would have saved poor Jules. It may have helped Masa, but thankfully he survived & fully recovered without one. I wonder if such a device would have saved Justin Wilson.
     
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    Seems to me silly season started early this year, but Haas already eliminated a few variables by confirming Grosjean and Magnussen for 2018.
     
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    Here's a thorough article on the upcoming halo. Among other surprises (well, I was surprised), the testing was much more extensive than I realized.

    Comes out fairly supportive of the halo but I think a lot of the points are hard to argue. Then again, I wasn't against it in the first place so take my opinion with the proverbial grain of salt.


    I'm VERY curious to see what this turns into:
     
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    I believe there will be some wild looking cars next year.
     
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    Renault dropped a bit if a bombshell this morning.

    Robert Kubica to test 2017 Renault in Hungary next week (bbc.com)
    More here: http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/40703059
     
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    Hope Kubica's test goes well. It would be a remarkable comeback should he race again in F1!
     
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    I hope he can do it. He is a great talent that deserves another chance.
     
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    That would be the comeback of all comebacks.

    Be watching FP1 this week.
     
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    Just in cast you mean watching FP1 to see Kubica's test...
     
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