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More stringent rollhoop tests planned following Zhou's British GP crash

F1 is to introduce 'more stringent measures' following the failure of the rolehoop on Guanyu Zhou's Alfa Romeo in horrific crash at Silverstone. While it was the Halo that rightly got the praise following the first lap crash which saw the Chinese driver's Alfa Romeo flipped over and skid along the track over the gravel trap that followed and finally barrel-rolling over the barriers into the catch fencing, it was the failure of the car's rollhoop that caused serious concern. 'It's still under investigation,' admitted team boss, Fredric Vasseur in Austria last weekend. 'The first conclusion is that the crash was something like two times more than the load of the crash test. It means that......
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