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Perez Car after opening lap incident (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

it's called a halo, and it's to protect the heads of the drivers. here's a slow mo ppl hated it in th3 beginning.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It has saved the lives of many of its opponents, like Grosjean, and has since its introduction has proven itself many times. Amazing how much safer F1 is today.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

totally forgot about grosjean. at about 1:25 you can see that the car punched through the bottom rails and the halo pushed the top one over his head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I really like this one of the coverage.

https://youtu.be/7YMjw2sjXqU

Still can’t believe he walked away from it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

totally forgot about grosjean.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

it's called a halo, and it's to protect the heads of the drivers.

here's a slow mo

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.