Thursday 28 July 2016 saw the F1 chiefs and teams vote to postpone introducing the controversial ‘Halo’ safety device until the 2018 season; something that the Grand Prix Driver’s Association chairman, Alex Wurz, hopes that Formula 1 will not ‘bitterly regret’. The vote on Thursday postponed the introduction of the ‘Halo’ cockpit safety device, something that Wurz and the GPDA had wanted introduced in 2017, until 2018 at the earliest. Having pushed for the Halo device to be used next season, the postponement has left Wurz hugely disappointed, as he believes that the decision has put the sport in a precarious position of hoping that there is not a major accident next season...
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