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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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