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Analysis: FIA wants closed cockpit plan ready for 2017
Formula 1 faces a crunch meeting at Heathrow on Friday, when technical chiefs are due to get together to try to make progress in agreeing a 2017 rules overhaul to make cars faster. But while there remain disagreements over the scope of aerodynamic revisions, there is one key item on the agenda where all those present will be pulling in one direction and hope to produce some definitive answers. Following years of research, and growing pressure following the deaths of Jules Bianchi and Justin Wilson, Motorsport.com understands that the FIA's Charlie Whiting will propose that a cockpit protection system is introduced in 2017. There is strong support for the move from the Grand Prix Drivers'...
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