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Halo prevents rain detection, says Sainz

Carlos Sainz believes the presence of the Halo cockpit safety device prevents the detection of light rain, forcing drivers to guess track conditions. Running at the end of yesterday's session, in damp conditions, the Renault driver said he failed to notice it had started to rain because the Halo had prevented the drops from reaching his visor. "Today when it started raining a bit, the rain, you couldn’t see it on the visor," explained the Spanish driver Monday evening. "The Halo was not allowing the rain drops to go onto the visor. "So you were not really seeing if it was raining or not. You were just feeling it in your hands, in your ass to see how the grip...
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