Jean Todt, the former FIA ♏presid🌼ent, has revealed 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, t♉he Halo,” Todt told Gazzetta dello Sport.&n♒bsp;

“I a💎sked the engineers: ‘Does this save the lives of d🦋rivers?’ 

“Yes, they answered me. 

ꦆ“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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.

More recently at Silverstone,✱ Zhou emerged unscathed after a horri൩fying crash.

And Romain Grosjean notoriously escaped a fireb🦩all in Bahrain (pictureဣd at the top).

Todt said about the Halo: "It's part of the evolution of racing, but🌼 also of road cars. Once people went to races like they went to bullfighting: they wanted to see a driver, a man, injure𓂃d. 

“The runners had helmets that today not even a cyclist would carry. Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda fou𒅌ght for safety. 

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

“The episodes that made 🅰me think of the Halo were the one that involveღd Felipe Massa in Budapest and the one in which John Surtees' son lost his life.”

The Halo was initially criticised for its lack of aesthetic appeal, and for deviating from the true essence of racing, but has since bee♐n lauded with near-universal acclaim.