"Bob LeDrew" (bobledrew1)
09/09/2015 at 14:09 • Filed to: None
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"Bob LeDrew" (bobledrew1)
09/09/2015 at 14:09 • Filed to: None | 1
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I’m not sure where I stand on closed cockpits for open-wheel racing. But when !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I tend to listen.
Stewart says:
“I don’t see it as that bad. How many incidents have we had? I mean one thing was changing safety – the racetrack, the deformable structures, the cars, everything,...(The death of) Henry Surtees, and this accident that happened in America, that’s two incidents. I don’t think Jules’s incident was anything to do with that (not having a closed cockpit).”
“I think there’s a lot of research and development has to take place... Everyone’s talking about a missile hitting the thing. What if there’s another accident, not with a missile coming back, and an impact? Is it a problem that the driver might not be able to get out correctly?
There’s a lot of things that you have to take into consideration. Are you going to get proper ventilation? It’s a very complicated thing, it’s not just a simple bubble.
“And sometimes you’ll be doing 280 or 300kph and an object comes. Is it going to damage the cell so that it can’t be taken off? A driver could be trapped in it.
“And do the spectators want it either? I think you have to be very, very certain that it’s going to work.”
Maxxuman
> Bob LeDrew
09/09/2015 at 14:30 |
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I imagine he’s right about Bianchi. Even if he’d had a closed cockpit, with the speed at which he hit the truck and the limited room under it something would have had to give, and I don’t think it would have been the truck.
Of course he’s also right that ventilation, egress (or access) following an accident and the like are issues that would need to be addressed. The shape of the cockpit in order to cheat the wind could also make keeping it clean more difficult than detaching a tear-off strip from a helmet.