Formula One will see further improvements in safety as of 2014 as the FIA has developed improved side impact crash structures in a joint effort with current F1 teams Mercedes, Marussia, McLaren and Red Bull Racing. At the basis of the improved crash structures is the extremely violent crash from Robert Kubica at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix. In an interview with FIA magazine Auto, FIA Institute research consultant Andy Mellor, who led the project, said: 'We went back to basics to examine what a side impact structure really needs to do in different types of accident. We used Robert Kubica's crash as a specific reference point since that was a major impact at an acute angle.” 'There were...
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