{"id":13111,"date":"2011-07-15T06:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13111"},"modified":"2011-07-15T06:59:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:59:16","slug":"f1-rejects-canopy-screen-proposals-for-f1-cockpits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-rejects-canopy-screen-proposals-for-f1-cockpits\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 rejects canopy, &#8216;screen&#8217; proposals for F1 cockpits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bosses have reportedly dismissed moves to enclose the cockpits of formula one cars.<\/p>\n<p>Technical chiefs began to investigate the possibility of jet fighter-style canopies for the cockpits in the wake of Felipe Massa&#8217;s near-fatal crash in Hungary two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can have covers and you can have canopies, but you also have to be able to get at a driver to extract him.\u00a0 There are a lot of secondary considerations,&#8221; said Ross Brawn.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Daily Mirror, F1 chiefs have rejected the idea of a roof over the drivers&#8217; heads.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the FIA had considered &#8220;poly-carbonate screens&#8221; for the cars, but &#8220;drivers fear the device could prevent escape in the event of a car overturning or catching fire&#8221;, while spectators would be &#8220;at danger from flying debris ricocheting off the screens&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bosses have reportedly dismissed moves to enclose the cockpits of formula one cars. Technical chiefs began to investigate the possibility of jet fighter-style canopies for the cockpits in the wake of Felipe Massa&#8217;s near-fatal crash in Hungary two years ago. &#8220;You can have covers and you can have canopies, but you also have to be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13112,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111\/revisions\/13112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}