Should f1 run coupes?

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Might I suggest that you actually read my post. I was saying that it was good that people were coming up with factual arguments rather than this whole "It's not cricket" nonsense.

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My bad. I just expect the worst from your posts unfortunately.

Apologies.

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

My bad. I just expect the worst from your posts unfortunately.

Apologies.

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No problems. Not trying to sound a cock, but I expected you not to expect much from my posts so I suspected that might be the case :p

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Originally Posted by Bagwan

Sure , it was worth a look , but it looks like they took that look and decided it wasn't worth it .

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Did they?

Lets be honest. Looking at that video there's only one conclusion to draw and that is that a windscreen or a canopy gives a driver a very good chance of escaping unharmed from what would either be certain death or at least serious injury.

Now is there a workable way of putting a canopy or windscreen on an F1 car without making things more dangerous? I think it takes more than just a few minutes to work that out :)

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Originally Posted by Daniel

No problems. Not trying to sound a cock, but I expected you not to expect much from my posts so I suspected that might be the case :p

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Not unexpected I suspect. :D

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Did they?

Lets be honest. Looking at that video there's only one conclusion to draw and that is that a windscreen or a canopy gives a driver a very good chance of escaping unharmed from what would either be certain death or at least serious injury.

Now is there a workable way of putting a canopy or windscreen on an F1 car without making things more dangerous? I think it takes more than just a few minutes to work that out :)

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There is a cause and effect consideration that has to be balanced in all of this. It has already been touched upon I think.

Whatever scenario you may prevent by implementing the canopy, you potentially introduce a number of other factors/risks.

The balance has got to be the chances of the event that the canopy could potentially protect against occuring, against the likelyhood of other risks inherant with the implementation of a canopy - driver trapped, fire, heat, fumes etc from occuring.

I am sure there a complicated equation that could be applied.

Cockpit research post-Massa «

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

There is a cause and effect consideration that has to be balanced in all of this. It has already been touched upon I think.

Whatever scenario you may prevent by implementing the canopy, you potentially introduce a number of other factors/risks.

The balance has got to be the chances of the event that the canopy could potentially protect against occuring, against the likelyhood of other risks inherant with the implementation of a canopy - driver trapped, fire, heat, fumes etc from occuring.

I am sure there a complicated equation that could be applied.

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All very good points as I've said countless times before. As I keep saying however, the engineers in F1 are a talented bunch and IMHO would be able to find ways of overcoming those other risks and we certainly can't go forward with changes till those risks have all been looked at and accounted for.

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Cockpit research post-Massa «

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Thanks. I would have been very surprised if research wasn't ongoing :) Lets see how this pans out and take it from there. I think we're more or less done talking about this for the moment ;)

F1 should be closed-cockpit because it just looks cool. Forget the safety aspect of it! ;)

Also, thanks for the link to the video.

Why don't people that want to see that sort of racing watch DTM or GT racing and not bugger about with F1.

Obviously the TWG are looking to make F1 safer but this is an idea too far.

Hate it, hate it, hate it.