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FIA working on a better looking Halo

12:23, 02 Sep 2018

byBobby Vincent

The FIA are planning to introduce a better looking Halo for the 2021 Formula One season, with many drivers complaining about how the safety feature works.

The Halo has been praised by numerous drivers/teams in the past week, following last weekend's potentially harmful crash involving Nico Hulkenberg, Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc.

Alonso's MCL33 was nudged by Hulkenberg's Renault, which meant the orange McLaren catalpulted over Leclerc's Sauber, and some think that without the Halo in place to protect the driver, it could have been very dangerous for the Sauber man.

Charlie Whiting has said that the Halo being replaced is "unlikely" but they are definitely looking for ways to upgrade the feature.

"There is further research going on for a new iteration, probably 2021, for a possibly more aesthetically pleasing to some," Whiting told Formula One's official website.

"But that's not the predominant reason for doing it. I have to say the Halo project was the most thoroughly researched project we've ever done, by a long way.

"We put an awful lot of work into trying to look at all the incidents where it may have helped, you've probably seen the presentations, we tried to assess what would have happened with or without it.

"It was a massively complex piece of research, it would have to be similarly thorough if we want to do another version of it."