Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
The first one that crosses most people's mind is the build up of dirt on the screen from oil, tyre bits, insects and rain smears. How would they sort that out, would they be installing
a windscreen wiper or is it going to be a tear off like on the helmet. If a tear off, how would the driver manage that at speed?
Then there is the question of whether the screen can sustain the weight of the car if it were upside down. Then there is the question of how it disintegrates
upon hard impact with amco barriers. If it shatters into elongated pieces, they could transform from a protector into a harmful projectile during high impact accidents.
WEC have windscreens on the LMP1 cars and they have dirt/oil remains as well on the windscreen which they have solved it by simplywiping the windscreen every time the car
is making a pit stop. Not really a big problem. Rain might be an issue since the windscreens are quite small/round which might be tricky for windscreen wipers but I am sure
that the engineers will be able to solve that. I do think there is some kind of lubricant/spray that you can apply to the windscreen which prevents waterdrops from "sticking"
to the windscreen. I do not know if it would work in racing though,

Durability of he glass is not different to WEC, modern acrylic glass is incredibly strong and is not really a concern.
If it is strong enough for WEC (which also have bigger windscreens then F1) then it should be strong enough for F1 as well.