May 28, 2016 – Formula 1 cars will be fitted with a further development of the ‘halo’ cockpit protection system in 2017.
The decision was taken by the FIA as well as team technical directors during a five-hour meeting at Monaco’s Novotel hotel on Friday.
The decision to definitely push ahead with a controversial covering for the premier open-cockpit formula followed a scary incident in Thursday practice, when a flying metal drain cover was hit by Jenson Button’s car.
The 2017 ‘halo’ will in fact be a development of the black carbon version seen on the Ferrari earlier this year, in stylised titanium and possible to open via a hinge.
But it is believed the Red Bull-devised ‘aeroscreen’ (pictured below) – favoured by many in the pitlane – is still in the running to replace the halo for 2018 and beyond.
