FX-i1 Concept - Closed-Cockpit F1 Car

  • Thread starter Thread starter Sach
  • 35 comments
  • 13,315 views
S

Sach

Messages
1,417
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
We all know that drivers understand the dangers of participating in the sport, but this has obviously been considered before, especially regarding accidents like Felipe Massa's. The look of it doesn't quite seem right for an F1 car, but it's not completely horrible either, and it makes sense with the risk of exposure to flying debris that drivers may encounter with an open cockpit.


thumb.php



http://www.iacoski.com/fx-i1_closed_cockpit_concept/


What do you think of it?
 
Last edited:
An open wheel LMP to be honest. Ironically an enclosed cockpit would increase aerodynamics and make it faster and more dangerous surely?
 
NO!!!!! I love to be able to see the drivers and f1 should be open cockpit
 
Looks horrendous. Side windows, really? If this was ever put into practice it would be a fighter jet style bubble.
eurofighter.jpg
 
Formula 1 doesn't need closed cockpits.
 
prisonermonkeys
Formula 1 doesn't need closed cockpits.
Click to expand...

Agreed. There are already a number of great safety measures in place in F1 since the early 90s (For obvious reasons).

Helmet design has been looked at and modified after Felippe Massa's incident in Hungary, to strengthen the area of weakness in the design.

As far as I know it, the material around the visor has been strengthened and also a carbon fibre strip has replaced a strip of material in the visor where there is usually advertising space (As the drivers can't see out of that part anyway, you may aswell make it out of strong opaque material).

There was a weakness in the helmet design identified as a result of Massa's crash, and this has been improved. Open or closed cockpit, you can not guarantee 100% safety. The problem with a closed cockpit is that it becomes more dangerous for the driver inside the car after small collisions, or failures which cause a fire (See Kovalainen at Singapore last year, or see Heidfeld at Hungary this year).
 
It actually looks cool, no wipers though, or doors, or room for the engine, but not very F1 like.
 
The FIA have already tested canopy designs and the fighter jet design was the favourite, due to the way it deflected the debris and absorbed the impact. Having windows would just be stupid.
 
Whilst I do question the purpose and/or need for closed cockpits in F1 as highlighted in my previous post, I think it does look pretty cool :D
 
Leave the closed cockpits to the LMPs, though it does look BOSS.

LMPs are cooler anyway.:sly:
 
It looks like a kids' toy, and last time I checked anything with a closed cockpit needed doors for a driver to get in.
 
While it does look cool, it needs a bubble canopy like the X2010/2011 :dopey:

Anyways, wouldn't it pose more problems should the driver not be able to get out in the event of a fire or small collision?
 
driftking18594
It looks like a kids' toy, and last time I checked anything with a closed cockpit needed doors for a driver to get in.
Click to expand...
And it doesn't actually look like there is anywhere for the engine to go.
 
Reminds me of Francesco from Cars 2 only longer and a white window
 
It has a frontengine, same machine as a Messerschmitt Kabinenroller. :lol: I'm all for canopies, but please, not like this.
 
It can be done, but not like above where EVERYTHING on the car has changed... A lot of people don't want change, but considering the week we have had in motorsport and Massa's accident I would welcome any safety improvements, this being the most obvious.
 
SaberFire
The FIA have already tested canopy designs and the fighter jet design was the favourite, due to the way it deflected the debris and absorbed the impact. Having windows would just be stupid.
Click to expand...

It may have been the favourite at one point, but the idea was quickly rejected due to the very real possibility of debris being deflected into a crowd. No one wants to see death in motorsports, but if anyone should be put at risk, it should be the drivers.
 
How do you enter?
 
prisonermonkeys
And it doesn't actually look like there is anywhere for the engine to go.
Click to expand...

That is a problem. Unless they put in a tiny 3 pot for an engine :lol:

I think it looks like the horror experiment of an LMP and a F1 myself. It doesn't look right.
 
Closed F1 cockpits with fighter jet canopies I'm all for provided they can be released very quickly in the event of the accident. Just look at the improvement in safety from this FIA test video.



As for the Ferrari on the first page I think its junk because I don't tend to think much of concepts not sanctioned or created by the manufacturer itself, i.e. its fan art. Calling it a 'Ferrari concept' its just the creators ego.

Robin.
 
We already know what the future of F1 should look like. The X1 in GT5 is amazing! :)
 
I think windshields are the way to go. True, the FIA tested windshield shattered when hit but it did deflect the tire from the cockpit = the driver's head/helmet.

A closed cockpit not only goes against what F1 is and always was, it also poses other safety specific problems. Like getting a driver trapped inside, no eject seats in F1.

Besides, windshields are part of F1's heritage. They were aerodinamical devices before, now they can be safety devices, why not.

070507_blog.uncovering.org_lotus72-rindt-1970.jpg


Regazzoni,_Clay_am_31.07.1976_-_Ferrari_312T_2.jpg
 
Windshields are a much better idea.

The number 1 fear of a Formula style race driver is getting trapped in a burning car.

Any kind of closed canopy is asking for trouble.

These cars are not like LM prototypes. They don't physically have the room in them for the kind of fire suppression systems it would require.
 
Make it like a drag boat, the canopy detaches from the boat (car in this case) in the event of a crash.
 
In which case the canopy loses any reason for being on the car in the first place?
 
Tired Tyres
In which case the canopy loses any reason for being on the car in the first place?
Click to expand...

It only detaches after the crash... if it gets hit by a tyre or any other object it will protect the driver but in the case of a big crash - after the cars stops it will detach...

No system is perfect... but they must try and keep improoving the safety of the drivers
 
Back