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Whiting allays fears about tyre brush in Aeroscreen test
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Formula One race director Charlie Whiting says the FIA is not worried about a crash test of Red Bull’s Aeroscreen that shows a tyre graze a driver’s helmet. In a bid to further improve safety standards in F1, the sport’s governing body is pushing on with plans to introduce a cockpit protection system on 2017 cars. So far, two concepts have been tested on track, with Ferrari debuting the Halo design in pre-season testing and Red Bull sampling its own solution in free practice for the Russian Grand Prix. In one of the videos released by the energy drinks company after running the Aeroscreen in Sochi, one can see a wheel actually brushing the helmet after it was...
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