The Bianchi family have every right to take the FIA to court, considering the governing body has done nothing but try to use Jules as a scapegoat for their own failings which lead to and contributed to his death. Head protection is a knee jerk attempted fix that probably still wouldn't have protected Jules on that fateful day.

But then again, staging the race at a late stage in the day to suit worldwide TV audiences, racing in failing light conditions, putting a heavy duty vehicle onto a live race track, putting marshals to work on a live race track, only covering an incident using a local yellow flag, not deploying a safety car or neutralizing the race, using tyres that were not fully tested properly for the conditions despite the requests of the tyre manufacturer, allowing the race to proceed despite the medical helicopter being unable to fly, allowing the race to go on when the ambulance couldn't reach a major hospital in the prerequisite emergency time period... you know all of these things showed negligence on the FIAs part but the halo will surely fix that and demonstrate they are focused on the safety of competitors. Unless we have a Hungary 09 occurrence again. But then F1 and FIA didn't learn anything from that either.

Primary reason they are introducing halo, in my cynical opinion, is that the Bianchi family are in the process of suing the FIA for squillions. Assuming there is a settlement;

- They do nothing about driver safety, they settle for squillions more (Bianchi's family lawyers put forward that the FIA have done nothing since the tragedy, therefore are an incompetent management group).

- They do something, they settle for settle for squillions less, because they've put in an effort. The fact its unpopular strengthens their case.

Or they take it to court, which is the last thing they want to do.

Has anyone sued Lotus for the death of Jochen Rindt yet? If not, I'd like to make an effort.