“I’m happy to have followed my beliefs despite strong opposition”. The former President of the FIA, Jean Todt, commented on a weekend in which the Halo was absolutely decisive in two incidents. In F2, in the Feature Race, Dennis Hauger, without the possibility of giving direction to his car after the failure of the right front suspension, took off on a bollard and literally ended up on Roy Nissany’s car (just the driver who a few meters earlier with a twisted him had knocked out).
In F1, on the other hand, following the accident at the start of the Alfa Romeo Guan Yu Zhou reported the immediate detachment of the roll-bar – a very serious fact – and only the Halo allowed the head of the Chinese driver to have a vital separation between the asphalt, the gravel, the safety nets and the very narrow hole in which it was incredibly stopped the race of the C42.
Helmut Marko He was never a big fan of the cockpit protection introduced in F1 in 2018. Faced with images of the Silverstone crash, however, the Red Bull youth program manager gave Halo all the credit for Zhou’s salvation: “We haven’t seen detailed images for a long time, which is usually a sign that something bad is happening – his words collected by the Austrian broadcaster Servus TV – then fortunately we got the message that the pilot was fine. It must be said that it’s really Halo’s credit. Without it, Zhou would not have survived. The FIA is really making great strides in terms of safety ”.
The Silverstone incident, however, should still be a warning for the Federation according to Marko: “Only a thin web separated Zhou from the audience, doing his job perfectly. I anyway I would not underestimate the dynamics and would try to further improve the safety of the spectators. But I am sure that the FIA will not underestimate anything ”.
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