Formula 1: Red Bull test in Sochi with a closed in cockpit

Posted on 28-04-2016 at 17:51 by shjdejee – 56 Comments”

And that looks separate from.

Well, the whole idea behind a (partially) closed cockpit than not that the looks must be beneficial. It is purely for safety, a topic that since the death of Jules Bianchi back on the agenda. If he is with a closed cockpit had driven, he would probably not have died of the consequences of the accident in Japan.

The FIA will see this also in and the expectations are that a closed cockpit from 2017 onwards is required. Besides, questions drivers even, so that closed cockpits you go soon just see in the Formula 1. The teams know yet how this exactly will look like, as the different concepts.

Next Friday, Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat during the free practice in Sochi for the first time with Red Bulls vision on the closed cockpit racing. There has been tested in the simulator by both riders, but this will for the first time in the really are. Below is a previously released sketch of the possible design of such a cockpit.