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Smedley: Closed F1 cockpits ‘very easy to implement’
Williams' head of vehicle performance Rob Smedley says closed cockpits would be “very easy to implement” if F1 wanted to do so. Jules Bianchi suffered a severe head injury as a result of his car going under a recovery vehicle during the Japanese Grand Prix. The FIA has been working on closed cockpit technology for some time and, while Smedley says he doesn't know if it would have helped in Bianchi's accident, he believes that it would not be a big challenge from a design point of view to switch to closed cockpits in future. “From a technical point of view it's something very easy to implement,” Smedley said. “It would change the look of Formula One cars, which I guess there is an...
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