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Palmer happy to be wrong about halo
After the halo all but saved Romain Grosjean's life, Jolyon Palmer has said that he's happy to admit that he was wrong about it. Grosjean somehow emerged from his horror crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix largely unharmed, that's largely due to the device that was introduced in 2018. Back then, Palmer was against it, but that's no longer the case. 'The halo was clearly a contributing factor in saving the Frenchman,' he said in his column for the BBC. 'First, it took the hit from the barrier, even piercing the steel and almost certainly deflecting it from hitting the driver's head-on impact. 'Secondly, it also meant Grosjean was afforded some wriggle room in the cockpit that may have aided his...
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