Cockpit protection for 2018 and T wing clamp down

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Looks like another reason to switch off, so far this season has been brilliant and it looks like the FIA want to try and kill it already, not saying the T wing and Shark fins are the main reason for the racing being so good, but what if they are? What if the regulations are only working out because of the Shark fin T wing areas?


Also looks like a mass trial of a shield this year with possible introduction of cockpit introduction next year, not sure what it is meant to achieve but for me I find one of the big draws to F1 is the open cockpit, now that we have lost big screaming engines that sounded amazing, to last year where they were bringing in the Verstappen rule to stop overtaking, now it looks like a real push to close the cockpit off a fair bit.

Source
http://www.crash.net/f1/news/244928/1/fia-reveals-...

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DanielSan said:

If they want to protect the drivers from flying stuff then build an LMP1 car, F1 should always be open cockpit. Some odd looking shield wouldn't have prevented Jules Bianchi or Maria De Villota's injuries. The only incident in F1 that the shield would've helped would be Massa, and I can't see the shield deflecting the weight of a wheel and tyre at 130-140mph plus either

There's nothing in the terms of a safety cage or cell that would have stopped Bianchi being killed, as we know he hit a 400 million ton digger at 130mph with his face.

Just seems they want to get F1 back to what it was, but by ruining it further, the F1 fan watches it for open wheel, open cockpit racing and or parading, not to watch effectively LMP1 cars go around, wouldn't surprise me if they consider wheel covers because Taka Inoue got run over by a medical car (sorry but that was funny)

https://youtu.be/wCXEhf1pYtw

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MG CHRIS said:

Isn't that btcc not f1 though. Thought racing was meant to be none contact.

It is none contact, they didn't slam into ya, they didn't bump ya, they didn't nudge ya.



Maybe it's time they actually asked the fans what we want to see and how to achieve it, not what a think tank want because of some mutterings on twitter read out by Shouty McShouterson Croft