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[Peat]

There's not going to be an elegant solution to 'partially' protect the driver while keeping it open cockpit. LMP style canopy is the only way to go if it needs to go that way. 

As it is, that Merc render is not 'bad', but only really protects from medium sized debris (wheels and such). It would stop a spring or a JCB. 

[Lotus53B]

Mercedes suggested a new solution.

According to AMuS it looks something like this:

 

 

Giving the drivers halos is a bit premature.

[KingTiger]

A tripod roll cage, or just a LMP1 styled roll cage would be designed to take shear as well as compression forces, unlike the F1 rollhoop which is meant to only stand up to compressive loads. The audi LMP1 monocoque is basically a slightly wider F1 monocoque anyway - I don't see how hard it'd be to make an F1 variant. 

I feel like LMP1 is really the proper 'Formula 1' right now... brimmed with innovation, safety, and an intriguing race format, that pleases fans and manufacturers. 

Meanwhile F1's rulebook is heavily arbitrary - it's almost a spec formula. 

The more I look at it, the ferrari concept that Scarbs illustrated is beautiful. 
 

 

I hope you know that there was a driver death in Le Mans just a few short years ago. I'm not sure that most people would agree that the horrifically dull 6 hr race formats is that pleasing either.