Well I think everyone have already seen the end of this movie, but I doubt everyone have seen the begining (it was hold by french autorities during years). So here is the worst crash of motorsport history from flag to flag : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... KJN6k&feature=related
Primary driver's LFSWorld Name: MoMo92i
Desired Number (1-99): 12
Country*: France (FRA)
Full Team Name**: spdoRacing
In-Game Racer Name: spdomomo
Full Racer Name: Morgan Trollé
car : XR GT Turbo
in fact McLaren aren't sure to keep that engine because it is nearly the same failure as Aston martin's six-inlane turbo...
That was a crazy start with Prospeed Porsche 1st & 2nd crashing together, Kirkaldy failing at the pitlane between F1 s'one and 24h's one (let's hope he has no serious injury), and that Lamborghini jumping in the barrier at the pit entrance.
After that, that become boring, Audi, Audi, Audi...and sometimes some crash. Would be nice to make some point with the level of all these GT3 :
Porsche : fast on wet track, a bit slower when it's not raining but an interesting fuel consumption.
Audi : fast and reliable thanks to Audi support (United's one had some serious problems)
Corvette : quite a good pace but a piece of s***
Aston Martin : let's wait the Vantage GT3
BMW : nice car, reliable and quite fast when it is well driven
Ferrari : good car too
McLaren : would have better not to come
Mercedes : not made for Spa (Mercedes teams had to change front height because of Eau rouge) and need some other brake pad
Ford GT : definitely a good GT3, Matech R.I.P.
Ford Mustang : no...
Lamborghini : easy to crash, and some wierd engine problem (this is basically the same as Audi R8 LMS)
Dodge Viper : old car...
It would be a really nice race because about 15 cars can win it ! Mercedes, Audi, Porsche, Ferrari, BMW, Aston Martin, McLaren,...so many constructor involved, that will be a great fight for sure !
the point is how do you do to close and lock your canopy? I think you didn't understand the problem. The problem that FIA pointed is that in case of crash (and bad luck) some object like wheels (Henri Surtees' son), pushrod (Ayrton Senna), springs (Felipe Masse)... can hurt the driver. So by the way the problem isn't when the car is upside down because this isn't canopy mission to protect driver in that case but it is the mission of the rollcage.
The problem with the canopy is how to extract a driver quickly from it, in case of fire for example. So the huge problem is to build some fast but hard locking system (and add lot of stuff due to closed cockpit like air conditioning,...
This canopy have in fact nothing in common with a closed LMP cockpit that is the rollcage too, here this is kind of "nothing into the head of driver system".
wrong it is damn hard : rain, temperature, safety (quick exit from the car, doors locking, ...), ... There are some reason why they are still some open prototyp at Le Mans
the problems with formula in general are open cockpit and no bodywork around the wheel. It is a security and aerodynamic problem (formula one's Cx is around 0.9 whereas Porsche 911's is 0.26)
So if you want to have a car totally safe you need closed LMP...that is totally non sense.
more : I don't know exactly the weight of a wheel in formula one, but I suppose it is about 5kg+ so finally your windscreen have to be really really strong to stop it ! Look at that : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i4xN0vfpUk
if you want some example of how dangerous an open cockpit is, you only have to remember what kill Senna.
btw that engine was AER engine renamed by Mazda speed and it was totally under powered by the regulation and not reliable at all...and very expensive too ^^