saturn13 wrote: ↑26 Jan 2018, 15:51
I keep reading the Halo is for deflecting debris. It's not. It is to protect the drivers head if they run under a recovery tractor. Also to keep a car from sliding along the body and hit a driver, a lot of close calls there. Alonso has had several close calls with other cars sliding over him. For debris they will have to install thick clear plastic in front. It will stop loose wheels, but not springs like Massa ran into.
I think they've tried to make out like stopping debris is ONE of the intended uses of the Halo but as you say it's only going to stop large pieces of debris and depending on strength a car riding up over the chassis.
It wouldn't necessarily even prevent large objects hitting the top of the drivers head such as Justin Wilson or Henry Surtis.
However I'd love to see a crash test with something along the lines of what happened to Alonso at Spa a few years ago and see how the Halo will absorb or deflect that much lateral impact force. The way I see it there would be two outcomes.
1. The Halo cannot absorb that much force and will break away from the chassis rendering it useless and even worse compound the problem.
2. The Halo can absorb the force but in some way strips bodywork or parts off the incoming car below the upper arm of 'the wishbone' which then ingress into the cockpit (again not really helping).
The Halo to me seems to have as many potential problems as it solves.