- 13,039
- United Kingdom
I'm not denying that it looks bad. I'm just saying that looks is a pathetic excuse for a case against it.You can rant all you want, but the fact remains that the halo is one piece of ugly poop on the cars.
I'm not denying that it looks bad. I'm just saying that looks is a pathetic excuse for a case against it.You can rant all you want, but the fact remains that the halo is one piece of ugly poop on the cars.
If fans didn't like it and attendance dropped, then that would be a case against it, no?I'm not denying that it looks bad. I'm just saying that looks is a pathetic excuse for a case against it.
Correct. In this case it's fans that are wrong, not the FIA
And there's the yellow color of the camera pod on the engine cover. Yellow is the #1 driver and black is the #2. It used to be yellow and red but that was too hard to see quickly at a glance so it's just yellow and blankCorrect. In this case it's fans that are wrong, not the FIA
The change that does need to be made though, is that the regulations should say that car in a team should have the Halo a different colour. That fixes the "I can't see their helmet, so I don't know who they are" issue (even though the numbers and names are now visible on the sides of the cars).
Exactly, there is enough to distinguish the drivers without looking at helmets. Anyway, with all the sponsor logos on them, they look the same anyway. When was the last time the Red Bull and Toro Rosso drivers were distinguishable?And there's the yellow color of the camera pod on the engine cover. Yellow is the #1 driver and black is the #2. It used to be yellow and red but that was too hard to see quickly at a glance so it's just yellow and blank
Cool. Now there is a sport more dangerous than motor racing. More people are killed per year playing it. More people get seriously injured playing it. What is it called?OK, I've had enough of this stupid Halo hate.
You want to know why I am happy to see the Halo on cars? In my time marshalling, I have been unfortunate enough to attend a fatal accident. It was a crash in a single seater where a driver was killed because his head was exposed. It was really not nice to be around and is not something I hope to see again. Why do I not dislike the halo? I know how horrible it is to go to a car and see terrible injuries. I wouldn't want to wish that experience on any other marshals. It really ruins your day/week/month to see somebody killed doing something they and you love. Do we really want another Justin Wilson type accident broadcast across the world and playing out in front of a packed grandstand filled with children? No. Do we want to open up GTPlanet and see a "RIP F1 driver" thread? No. The whole Jules Bianchi incident was a horrible moment for the sport.
The drivers asked for head protection, and the halo is the only viable solution at the moment. It will be improved to not only look better, but function even better than it does at the moment. How much do you really want to see one of the drivers killed? If the answer is anything other than "I don't", you really need to sort out your priorities and look at WHY the halo has been introduced, not just look at it and go...
iT loOkS DiSGusTIng, tAkE it AWay
I don't like the way it looks. I can see many issues with it, but BECAUSE I understand the reasons it's there, there is NO ARGUMENT AGAINST IT. Aesthetics the only argument against it, which is a pathetic argument. In modern F1, a driver is more at risk from being hit in the head by flying debris or other cars than they are to be trapped in a burning car. F1 takes place on a circuit with marshals everywhere. If a car is on fire, someone will at least attempt to stop the fire in enough time that a driver won't be trapped for any time longer than necessary.
The Indycar shield is not a solution yet. There are too many issues with its strength in car-to-environment crashes for it to appear on cars yet. But it will probably replace the halo in a few years.
Safety is not a joke. In some places it can be taken too far, but here, it is not being taken too far.
Now, let's ignore the halo for a while, because it has zero affect on anything meaningful, and focus on the racing. That's what we're all here to watch, and what we want to see. This season should be much closer than last season, and the racing should be awesome. So lets focus on what matters, and not something that has been fully researched, and is being introduced with full confidence. Any issues it may cause have been thought of, researched and explained.
tl;dr: Get over it.
Compare the likes on our posts and then restate that.Funny how so few people agree with you.
Says the dispicable person who posted this.Compare the likes on our posts and then restate that.
Not many people agree with me outside this thread because nobody ever thinks "why has that appeared", they all just assume everything is done to spite the fans. Look into why and then you'll realise how wrong you are.
Do you seriously want a driver to get killed? Offer a solution to driver head protection that has been thoroughly researched and is better than the halo in every way and I'll agree with you. Until that point, you're being as ignorant as a lot of the internet haters.
To be brutally honest, i really hope that in the first race of the season, there is a crash where a wheel or something bounces off the halo and saves a driver's life, so everyone can shut up about "ooh, the halo is disgusting, get it off *cry* *cry* *cry*".
Looking ahead on my directv timeline, I'm a bit worried about espn coverage. Just an hour for qualifying, and two hours for the race with no post-race on schedule?
I'm afraid that any slight delay means I won't get to see the end of the race. Heck, it already looks like podiums are out the door. Memories of espn constantly dropping the motorsport ball are coming back to me. I miss NBCsn already.
Where to begin...@Jimlaad43, you can come up with all the reasons you want for why you think halo will save someone's life. A few things:
1. If safety really that high a priority, you should campaign to end motor racing. There's no need to drive cars this fast, it proves nothing to anyone. Resources and human life would be better spent trying to cure cancer, not driving in circles. If safety is priority number 1, motor racing is doing a piss poor job by encouraging people to drive that fast, even on a closed circuit.
2. If you don't want to see anyone get hurt, you could stop being a marshal, stop going to races. It's like being a lifeguard and hoping people don't get wet.
3. There's another little series, perhaps you've heard of it, called MotoGP, where riders reach similar top speeds, do it with no halo. Any arguement you want to make about why F1 needs halo kind of goes out the window when motorcycle racing still exists.
Statistically speaking, the sport of Polo is more dangerous than F1....yet when Superman broke his back, no one in the polo community made a knee jerk discussion to play polo in a bouncy castle.
F1 is soft, it's over politicized, and it's completely lost the plot.
In this addition of the Volvo Ocean race, a crewman from Shun Hun Kai Skallywag fell overboard on the stretch from Australia to Honk Kong (they still won the leg lol), no lifejacket, team nearly didn't find him. Despite that, no one is demanding that the next edition of the Volvo be sailed in a bathtub, so that no one gets hurt.
Same with the bike race at Macau. It's dangerous, people accept it's dangerous, and they get on with it.Man, some people don't understand that others have a different opinion, nobody is right or wrong.
Look at the Isle of Man TT for goodness sake. Far more danger there than any other motorsport and yet the riders love it and turn up year after year, knowing that there is a huge chance they may be turning it into their final day alive.
The thing is, they want to do it, who is anyone to tell them no?
What are your clear arguements for it, other than you don't want to see someone get hurt while doing an enharently dangerous thing?Cool. Ignore clear arguments for the sake of a high horse.
Jeez, this topic and the one when grid girls were removed from F1 really bring out the derp around here
Thanks, I was just thinking of posting something trying to get back on topic of this particular GP.Halo discussion goes somewhere else.
Like https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...-bus-f1s-new-halo.374930/page-4#post-12226145
Cool. Ignore clear arguments for the sake of a high horse.