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Halo deployment 'cost Force India $1 million'

Force India believes that the FIA's decision to implement the Halo cockpit protection device has cost them around a million dollars in development. Technical director Andrew Green said that the introduction of the Halo meant that they couldn't just evolve last year's chassis. Instead, they had to go back to the drawing board to solve issues it caused. "It was a huge challenge," Green told reporters at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Monday. "For a team like us it was massive. "Expense-wise it’s huge because we had to do a new chassis," he pointed out. "You’re looking at hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars to put the Halo on the...
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