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**botagozzz** · 09-06-2012, 11:51 PM

No but Henry Surtees was killed by a flying tyre, Dan wheldon was killed by impact with a fence post, massa was nearly killed by flying debris and there is a history of connections between heads and external objects in open cockpit racing. However, the talk of covering cockpits in f1 is completely pointless IMO if it is not also mandated in f2, f3, wsr, gp2, formula ford, formula Renault, formula BMW, karts, IndyCar, Indy lights and any other open series you can think of. The risk is the same and just as unacceptable in these series, so why are we only expecting f1 to change. It's either all or nothing, or we are saying its acceptable en-route to f1 but not when you get there. Fact is the risk of that type of incident/injury/death is very low, but we've reached the point where covering the cockpit is probably the best/only way of reducing the risk further.

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This is correct.

This is an issue the FIA for the whole of Open cockpit racing cars to confront, not just F1. Possibly it is more dangerous in junior formula where the cars are not always as strong and supposedly the driving levels are slightly lower.

F1 should have better in all these things. So look at the lower levels first.

Its tough as I said because each time an accident like this occurs its easy to say well but its an open wheel and cockpit formula which I myself have said in thje past.

However that is OK until someone is killed, then I am sure things would change.

09-06-2012, 11:51 PM	#9
botagozzz Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 544 Senior Member	No but Henry Surtees was killed by a flying tyre, Dan wheldon was killed by impact with a fence post, massa was nearly killed by flying debris and there is a history of connections between heads and external objects in open cockpit racing. However, the talk of covering cockpits in f1 is completely pointless IMO if it is not also mandated in f2, f3, wsr, gp2, formula ford, formula Renault, formula BMW, karts, IndyCar, Indy lights and any other open series you can think of. The risk is the same and just as unacceptable in these series, so why are we only expecting f1 to change. It's either all or nothing, or we are saying its acceptable en-route to f1 but not when you get there. Fact is the risk of that type of incident/injury/death is very low, but we've reached the point where covering the cockpit is probably the best/only way of reducing the risk further. Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2 This is correct. This is an issue the FIA for the whole of Open cockpit racing cars to confront, not just F1. Possibly it is more dangerous in junior formula where the cars are not always as strong and supposedly the driving levels are slightly lower. F1 should have better in all these things. So look at the lower levels first. Its tough as I said because each time an accident like this occurs its easy to say well but its an open wheel and cockpit formula which I myself have said in thje past. However that is OK until someone is killed, then I am sure things would change.
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