F🦩IA race director Charlie Whiting has confirmed the Halo on Charles Leclerc’s car sustained an impact at roughly half the test level for the Formula 1 cockpit protection device during the collision with Fꦛernando Alonso at Spa.

Leclerc’s Sauber was struck after Alon෴so’s car was sent airborne followi🍰ng a rear impact from Nico Hulkenberg, with the Halo of the Monegasque youngster’s car being struck.

Whiting said in the wake of the accident it was “speculative” to suggest the Halo had prevented Leclerc from being hit by Alo𒉰nso’s wheel, but the incident acted to end a lot of debate about the necessity of the device.

Speaking in a press briefing at Monza on Friday alongside FIA president Jean Todt, Whiting said that further discussions and investigations i𒊎nto the 🌠incident found the Halo to have withstood an impact half the level of the test loads.

“The initial conclusions are the Halo🥀🐼 experienced a load of roughly half of the test load, in more or less the same place as the test load or one of the test loads is actually applied to the Halo,” Whiting said.

“There was no distortion of the Halo, it was taken off, there was no buckling of it. The Sauber guys have crack checked it and it seems ꦗto be fine.”

Whiting said the load on Leclerc’s Halo was estimated to be a ma🌸ss of 56 kilonewtons,’ equivalent to more than 5,000 kg.

“It is an estimate because you have♚ to know precisely what the suspension could fail at, the weight of the car, the relative speed of the cars of course,” Whiting said.

“All of those things are to some extent estimates. I think the fact that the suspension was broken by the Halo, by its contact with the Halo, demonstrates ꦦthe sort loads that we saw.

“The test load is 125 kN.”

Despite the FIA’s ongoing investigation, Whiting said it wa꧂s still too early to make a definitive judgement on whether it had saved Leclerc’s life.

“That is something we havᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚen’t reached a conclusion on yet and needs more research, to try and understand the accident mechanisms there,” Whiting said.

“It’s not possible at this stage to say that witꦅh complete certainty.”