The FIA are set to impose stricter assessments on the roll hoop of subsequent 12 months’s Formula 1 automobiles after Zhou Guanyu’s horrifying crash at Silverstone final month.
The Chinese driver escaped unhurt after his Alfa Romeo flipped following contact from George Russell, earlier than skidding throughout the tarmac and gravel and flipping once more above the tyre barrier and into the catchment fencing.
The rookie escaped unscathed, his head protected against severe harm by the titanium Halo machine that rings the cockpit.
But the roll hoop failed after contact with the monitor through a pressure beforehand unexpected and Alfa have been working with the FIA to analyse the crash, alongside different groups.
Alfa are the ony crew to at the moment utilise a “spike” hoop design, however this may very well be banned for 2023 as technical delegates focus on modifications to subsequent 12 months’s automobiles.
Zhou Guanyu slides in direction of the barrier at Silverstone (Tim Goode/PA)
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“The analysis is still ongoing, we’re working since the first day with the FIA to try to reconstruct the accident and assess as best as we can,” Alfa Romeo technical director Jan Monchaux mentioned.
“Because it’s not an easy task, the force involved. As yet the internal investigations are not completely finished, so I won’t disclose anything. And if someone will disclose something, it’s going to be the FIA.
“In between, the FIA has asked all the teams to provide feedback, imposing several load cases on their respective roll hoops to understand potentially where there’s room for improvement in effect.
“The load cases that are being imposed by the rules, you have some vectors where you need to apply a force on the front and on the rear of your roll hoop [that] are potentially not the most adequate for the kind of accident we had, where effectively you have a car sliding, so subjected to forces that are quite flat, and not so much a kind of vertical impact.
Zhou Guanyu’s terrifying crash sparked off a dramatic British Grand Prix (Tim Goode/PA)
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“So there might be here changes in the future. But I believe the FIA will come back before the shutdown [summer break] with some new recommendations, additional tests. We have to see what they will draw out from the feedback of all the teams.”
The information comes because the FIA’s technical directive concerning the flooring of this 12 months’s automobiles comes into impact on the Belgian Grand Prix on the finish of the month.
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk
