On Sunday’s F1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, in the first corner of the race, George Russell of Mercedes-Benz and Pierre Gasly of Effatori collided, Russell’s car spun and 200 The mph hit the edge of Zhou Guanyu’s racing car. The car driven by the first F1 racing driver in Chinese history was overturned, the bottom of the car brushed the gravel buffer zone on the edge of the track, and then turned into the large guardrail buffered in front of the grandstand. The car was sandwiched between the guardrail and the stands. Zhou Guanyu was finally rescued by the medical team, and was declared uninjured after an examination at the medical center. He later said he believed his life was saved by the Halo system’s protective device . F1 racing has always been a dangerous sport, with drivers killed after being hit in the head by debris from other cars. “Halo” is a titanium fence in the shape of a “Y” wishbone that sits above the racing cockpit and surrounds the driver’s head. It’s designed to hold the weight of a London double-decker bus – the equivalent of 12 tonnes of gravity resting entirely on the 7kg frame covered in carbon fibre. The Halo system was first trialled in F1 cars in 2016 and became mandatory in 2018 as a way to protect drivers’ heads from debris or a crash in a rollover accident.
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