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Eric Silbermann: Hello to the Halo?

Eric Silbermann is worried about what the Halo could do to the appeal of Grand Prix racing. He also remembers an old friend. I’m glad the hysteria of winter testing is over. For race starved F1 folk, be they team people, journalists or fans, those eight days of testing are akin to knocking back six dry martinis when you’ve been on the wagon since Abu Dhabi in November. The excitement of it all is just too much and as you’d expect after six dry martinis, a great deal of what was said, broadcast and written was piffle. There was no shortage of coal to throw on the red hot brazier of news and gossip and if we had thought the new qualifying idea was a fading ember by the time we got to...
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