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Mirrors "tough" to attach to the halo despite FIA giving it the green light

15:05, 03 May 2018

bySam Bytheway

Members of the tehcnical teams at two Formula One teams believe that attaching rear-view mirrors to the ‘Halo’ on cars will still prove difficult despite receiving clarification from the FIA.

A technical directive was sent by the FIA to teams ahead of last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix clarifying that mirrors can be attached to the Halo, but Mercedes technical director James Allison and Red Bull chief engineer Paul Monaghan both said it would be tough to get the mirrors affixed while meeting the regulations.

“It’s not a rule change, it’s a clarification of the existing rules, and it is tough," Allison said.

“It is tough to attach to attach a mirror and not make it wobble around and satisfy all the criteria of the technical directive that clarifies what you can and can’t do.”

Monaghan added:

“Now there is some clarity, I guess we know that we can now put mirrors on Halos,

“So if someone wants to go down that route and try to fulfill the other requirements in the technical directive, which are not trivial to observe, then yes, we will see it in a few races’ time.

“Whether or not you actually can make it work I think is more tricky.”