Craig Breen

[mknight]

And it’s all very well using some form of impenetrable material for windows but then what happens when a crew is trapped inside a burning vehicle and emergency crews can’t get in to save them?

You introduce tools that can cut the windows. Emergency crews have this already. Rally crews can have a small tool.
Along the lines of window breaking hammers on public busses.

Primary escape route is always the two doors. Also note that I was talking about sidewindows, not windscreen.

This level of "finding" an issue is like saying cars shouldn't have rollcages cause it makes it hard to climb out trough the boot after crash.

What impact other than saving lives had the HANS device?

When introduced there were issues with limiting head movement, not matching seats, etc. In short, it changed how drivers sat in the cars. Most of those issues were fixed in a few years.

On top of that there were campaigns by rallydrivers (with support of some doctors) towards FIA claiming HANS caused increased spine injuries when car hit a bump/jumped at high speed, don't quite remember how it ended. (but obviously we have HANS today).

My point was that HANS had direct impact on drivers seating/working space. Compared to that changing side window materials is completely negligible.

But as always, it is enough for some people to cry about destroying the sport.