By James Broughton, May 4, 2016
During a recent interview Ecclestone raised significant doubt whether a cockpit protection device would offer any meaningful protection.
“I don’t like any of them!” said Ecclestone of the Ferrari’s and Red Bull’s designs.
“I just think to try to simulate something when you’ve got a stationary object, and you’re firing a tyre at it, when in the race when the wheel has come off normally both cars would be moving. So how can you simulate it by having a car stationary? And how would you ever know what’s going to happen with a wheel anyway? If it hits the thing it would probably bounce off anyway. So I don’t know.”
The sport’s governing body, the FIA, will select which design solution to go with by July, the word on the street is that the Ferrari Halo will be given the greenlight.
In response to Hamilton’s opposition Ecclestone gave a classic quip “We can make it more dangerous if he wants.”
