Tremendous accident and miracle in the sprint of F2 of Austria
The Halo saved Luke Browning’s life after a car directly passed him in the second round of Spielberg’s short race.
Charlie Whiting, who worked for years as a career director of F1, broke until tiredness for the introduction of halo in the FIA formula cars. The security device that covers the pilot’s head is built by grade 5 titanium and can support kilos of load. Finally, in 2018, the International Automobile Federation marked it as mandatory for F1, F2, F3, Regional Formula, Formula E and all versions of F4. Since then, there are many cases of pilots who owe life to Halo: Romain Grosjean, Fernando Alonso, Charles Leclerc, Guanyu Zhou … To the list you have to add Luke Browning from this Sunday after being wrapped in a tremendous and miraculous accident in the Austrian Formula 2 Sprint race.
In the second round of the short race of the tenth appointment, Sami Meguetounif reached the braking of the third curve, the strongest on the track, and tried to perform a risky and reckless maneuver: he threw himself inside, where there was no place, to overcome Arvid Lindblad. The Frenchman passed over the piano and part of the earth, his Dallara was out of control, he left against the Red Bull driver, the wheels were hooked and flew. In the air he turned and fell from the head of Luke Browning’s car. The Halo was the one that I prevent the English from belonging to the Williams Academy not to receive the direct blow to the head, which, without a doubt, would have marked a fatal outcome.
The race stopped immediately with a red flag and the concern increased because the official TV did not show the place of the incident or passed repetitions, protocol that is used when there is an injured pilot. After almost five minutes, the cameras broadcast images in the overturn area and the protagonists.
The competition was stopped for about 30 minutes, while the cars were removed and the liquids that had spilled, before the restart were cleaned. Browning was fine, the same as Meguetounif. That for what whoming fought so much, who died in 2019, saved lives again.
