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Palmer: You cannot put a bubble around the drivers

Jolyon Palmer believes F1 shouldn't try to 'put a bubble' around the drivers as the sport pushes ahead with plans to introduce Halo in 2018. Next season the Formula 1 cars will all carry the cockpit protection device, which has divided opinion in the paddock. Palmer is one driver who is against it despite seeing the FIA's presentation on Halo and how they believe it could have saved Henry Surtees who was killed by a loose wheel in a Formula 2 race. 'I have to take onboard what they say. I have not experienced it but it should help,' he said. 'Maybe we’ve been very lucky, but for 60, 70 years in Formula 1, there has not been a fatality because of that reason. 'Maybe it could not happen in...
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