The Verizon IndyCar Series isn’t ready to confirm its solution or timeline for enhanced cockpit safety, but all signs point to aeroscreens and 2018. IndyCar competition president Jay Frye has been vocal about the series' intentions to introduce some form of device that will reduce the likelihood of helmet strikes, and told RACER in June that no decision had been made on whether a halo or aeroscreen would be used, or when either unit would appear. However, Frye now believes that there is doubt over whether the halo can be adapted to work on ovals. "F1 came out and said they were doing the Halo; I don't think that is a great application for us," he told RACER. "The banking...
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