Manoah2u wrote:i'm rather sure that in the end, there will be a unanamous decision that the call for halo comes just too fast and that windtunnel effects are greater than imagined and would prove problematic for stability, disruptance of pre-calculated airflow, the mention that this device is implemented despite there having been an agreement for the 2017 design in which development progress has been made for years, but there has been no definitive decision back then regarding a halo, so it would influence the sport negatively, be a cause for fuel usage, for mirror visibility, and lastly but not least, visibility for the driver. - and to top it all off, there might be also mention regarding the device has been developed by Ferrari which had driving experience with it thus causing a potential 'advantage' over the rest of the field. not to mention there's still the danger of not being able to escape when upside down - Alonso could not have gotten out of his vehicle.
based upon all the above, i'd say that, despite the alarmbells ringing that this might really happen in 17, i still say in the end it will not happen until 2018 or 2019, when a more thoroughly researched path has been done by an independant manufacturer that is able to use a donated / loaned older-spec F1 vehicle to use data without the halo/aeroscreen and data with the halo/aeroscreen, visibility, and more thorough crash tests, where 2 options will be researched,
the halo and the aeroscreen. in the long run, the aeroscreen has the biggest benefits both safety as aesthetically.
in the end again, there is a 'current' 'agreement' regarding the halo device, but not a regulated rule. since there simply is no rule yet enforced regarding this device, there is simply no way the teams can be mandated to make use of the device, so in the end no single team will make use of it.
I really think you have no idea what limited view a f1 driver has. From behind the wheel he can't even see the Halo, how is it possible that it will obstruct his view?
Forget the Xbox game kinds of views. All they see and want to see are the apexes. Forward view is almost irrelevant. Plus, because we have two eyes, they won't even see the central pillar (you can try this yourself easily).
A windscreen on the other hand, is something extra to look through. Will be smudged, greased, be-flied, wet, etc etc
