Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu In last night's F1 Grand Prix British race, the car was hit by the car next to it on the starting turning circle, rolled over, and slid upside down. The roof of the car rubbed against the ground, and sparks flashed out. .
The scene was extremely frightening. Five minutes later, the team confirmed that Zhou Guanyu was fine and conscious. Thank God.
The car rolled and rushed towards the guardrail.
This morning, Zhou Guanyu posted a message on his social media to report that he was safe. "I'm fine. I'm lucky to still be here. Halo saved me today. Thank you everyone for your concern for me."
What ? Halo? What kind of high-tech product is Halo? Can the driver be kept safe and sound after such a serious accident?
It is a metal support designed by F1 to protect drivers from flying debris and provide driver head protection. It is the strongest component in the entire F1 car. According to F1 officials, it can withstand an impact of 12 tons. It is equivalent to an double-decker bus, and it will be fine even if is pressed on it. As you can see in the screenshot below, Zhou Guanyu’s head did not touch the ground in the inverted state, and Halo did not deform due to strong friction with the ground during sliding.
The undeformed HALO
In addition, because its shape resembles that of a flip-flop, car fans jokingly call it the F1 flip-flop. Look at the picture below, the part circled in red looks like a flip-flop.
Flip-flops
In 2018, F1 racing cars began to use flip-flops. At first, the drivers complained about it a lot. Until the 2020 F1 Bahrain Station, Gross experienced a more serious rollover accident than Zhou Guanyu, and the car broke into two parts. It caught fire, but the Halo, the strongest part of the car, did not suffer any deformation, and Gross only suffered broken ribs and minor burns. Since then, has any driver complained that flip-flops increase the weight of the car, affect vision, reduce balance, etc...
[Flip-flops] are not the FIA and FOM (F1 Group), is in The only protective piece successfully developed for the driver's life support, such as the fire-proof suit worn by Gross who ran and jumped out of a sea of fire before, the HANS system (head support system), and the explosion-proof mailbox. While
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