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Formula 1: FIA boss Jean Todt responds to halo criticism
Motorsport boss Jean Todt has hit back at criticism of the new halo head protection device. Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said last month that he would take a chainsaw to the halo if he could. But Todt, the president of motorsport's governing body the FIA, said it had been introduced to save lives and at the request of drivers' body the GPDA. "I am amazed to hear some people say: 'OK, motor racing is dangerous, if it happens, it happens,'" Todt said. "Can you imagine how we would all feel if something happened and if we would have had the halo it would not have happened?" And he dismissed critical comments from Wolff by saying: "I will not react. It is a childish...
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