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Button: Alonso crash not evidence against halo

In the wake of Fernando Alonso's horror crash, Jenson Button says having the halo cockpit protection is worth taking a bit more time to get the drivers out of the cars. Alonso suffered a massive crash in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix. He clipped the rear of Esteban Gutierrez's Haas before slamming into the wall and sliding into the gravel at speed. That caused his McLaren to flip twice before coming to a rest on its side against the wall. Alonso crawled out of the car, saying he did it 'quickly just to make sure that people at home were not too worried about me.' His crash has raised questions about how he would have been extracted from the car if the halo cockpit protection device had...
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