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McLaren wants ‘helmet visor tear-offs’ rethink
McLaren has called on F1 to consider a rule tweak about the disposal of drivers' helmet visor tear-offs. The Honda-powered team found that Fernando Alonso's brake failure in the Spanish grand prix, which caused him to almost run over the front jack-man in the pits, was caused by one of the disposable plastic strips. Drivers begin each race with a few layers of the ‘tear-offs' on the visor, so that when visibility becomes poor, one can be pulled off and discarded. But a tear-off on Sunday became stuck in one of Alonso's brake ducts, leading to overheating and failure. A team spokesman told Germany's Bild newspaper: 'We could not tell if it was his own or another driver's as it was...
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