FIA completes Grosjean crash investigation.

[devilmaster]

https://www.fia.com/news/fia-concludes-investigation-romain-grosjeans-accident-2020-bahrain-formula-1-grand-prix-and

Haas will be changing their car for 2021:
- headrest will be slightly smaller and in separate pieces to allow for better escape
- fuel filler bracket will no longer be attached to chassis (safety cell tank was attached to one part with filler bracket attached to another, the forces ripping them apart, allowing for fuel to escape)

[pfc_m_drake]

https://www.fia.com/news/fia-concludes-investigation-romain-grosjeans-accident-2020-bahrain-formula-1-grand-prix-and

Haas will be changing their car for 2021:
- headrest will be slightly smaller and in separate pieces to allow for better escape
- fuel filler bracket will no longer be attached to chassis (safety cell tank was attached to one part with filler bracket attached to another, the forces ripping them apart, allowing for fuel to escape)
Good changes because safety progress is always important.
To me it's still a huge miracle that Grosjean escaped as 'unscathed' as he did.

To me this is a big one from the report:

Review of existing circuit barrier opening installations

I still think that barrier in Bahrain had no business being where it was, at the angle it was at, on the circuit.

[opinionated ow]

I still think that barrier in Bahrain had no business being where it was, at the angle it was at, on the circuit.

100%. Plus they need to look at the use of ARMCO on circuits that run pointy cars (i.e. openwheelers). Anything that can splice a gap like that is a bad crash barrier. The SAFER barrier doesn't seem to have that issue. I've seen many similarly angled incidents in an indycar at much higher speeds and the car doesn't get wedged in the barrier.

[RTKar]

Armco should have been gone after Cevert's crash.

[devilmaster]

The problem is, armco is everywhere still. The comments here made me go look at race vids from last year... I mean its everywhere...

The pricetag may be easier on an oval when adding safer, but what would be the pricetag on a long road course?

Here's last years Monza race. Its all armco, or armco with banners in front of it....

It needs to change, but I have no doubt there'll be so much blowback about costs that they won't do it, or it'll take forever to change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB5yhZdF8SI (can't embed f1 videos)