Jean Todt, the former FIA president, has reveale🌌d the key question which led to him introducing the design and making it a mandatory requirement of every F1 car.

“🌌People didn't want it, the Halo,” Toꦐdt told Gazzetta dello Sport. 

“I a♑sked the engineers: ‘Does this save the lives of drivers?’ 

“Yes, they answered me. 

💝“And so I imposed it. The only thing we can say is that we have lost some time on it."

Hamilton credited the Halo with saving his life at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix (pictured above). “It saved my neck,” he said after a crash with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen.

More recently at Silverstone, Zhou emerged u𒁃nscathed after a horrif𝄹ying crash.

And Romain 🌳Grosjean notoriously escaped a fireball in Bahrain (pictured at the top).

Todt said about the Halo: "It's part of the evolution of racing, but also of roa⭕d cars. Once people went to rac🎉es like they went to bullfighting: they wanted to see a driver, a man, injured. 

“The runners haꩵd helmets that today not even a cyclist would c😼arry. Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda fought for safety. 

“When I was elected president of the FIA I immediately put safety as the first point, not on♑ly for racing, but also at street level. It's not always easy, because pඣeople are reluctant to change. 

“The episodes that made m🥃e think of the Halo were the one that involved Felipe Massa in Budapest and the one in which John 𝓀Surtees' son lost his life.”

The Halo was initially criticised for its lack of aesthetic appꦍeal, and for deviating from the true essence of racing, but has since been laud⛎ed with near-universal acclaim.