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Wurz hopes F1 doesn't come to “regret” Halo delay

Grand Prix Drivers’ Association chairman Alex Wurz says he hopes Formula 1 does not come to “bitterly regret” delaying the introduction of the Halo – in a move that he suggests has put business over safety. Wurz and the GPDA have taken a keen interest in the development of the Halo, and was wholly in favour of the device being introduced next year to help minimise F1’s dangers. But following a vote of F1’s Strategy Group in Geneva on Thursday, teams and F1 chiefs decided to postpone the introduction of any extra cockpit head protection until 2018. That move has left Wurz deeply disappointed – and he thinks it has put the sport in to ‘uncharted territory’ where it will be...
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