Halo will look better in the future - FIA

The FIA are committed to introducing a "more aesthetically pleasing" version of the halo in time for the 2021 Formula 1 season. The safety device has come in for much praise in the past week after Charles Leclerc appeared to be spared serious injury by his at the Belgian Grand Prix.

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Although the halo has been widely praised over the past seven days, the prevailing feeling remains that it makes cars less visually appealing,

It appears unlikely that another system will replace the halo in the coming years, with FIA race director Charlie Whiting saying upgrading the current device is the priority.

"There is further research going on for a new iteration, probably 2021, for a possibly more aesthetically pleasing to some," Whiting said.

"But that's not the predominant reason for doing it. I have to say the halo project was the most thoroughly researched project we've ever done, by a long way.

"We put an awful lot of work into trying to look at all the incidents where it may have helped, you've probably seen the presentations, we tried to assess what would have happened with or without it.

"It was a massively complex piece of research, it would have to be similarly thorough if we want to do another version of it."

The incident at Spa was not the first time the halo had come into use in 2018 - Formula 2 driver Tadasuke Makino was spared contact with a rival car by the device during the Spanish sprint race.