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On This Day – January 31
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Mosley Announces Black Boxes
Renault Introduce Seamless Shift Gearbox
Mauro Baldi Born
JJ Lehto Born
Jo Bonnier Born
Max Mosley, president of FIA, motor sport’s governing body announced in 1996 the introduction of aircraft –style black boxes in F1 cars. The announcement was part of the FIA’s F1 safety campaign. Mosley explained that the black boxes, had they been in use two years earlier, may have explained the causes behind the deaths of Aryton Senna and Roland Ratzenburger twenty-one months earlier in Imola. Mosley added that the black boxes may have clarified the reasons behind the collision involving Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill in Australia at the end of the 1994 season. Initially the black boxes would be installed experimentally in some cars for the 1996 season, with all cars carrying them in 1997.
