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Massa vows to help efforts to improve cockpit safety
Felipe Massa has offered any help he can give to help improve cockpit safety in motor racing, following Justin Wilson's fatal IndyCar crash at Pocono at the weekend. The Williams Formula 1 driver, who survived being hit on the helmet by a 1kg spring at more than 259km/h in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2009, believes more can be done to help protect drivers. But he is also adamant that having fully enclosed cockpits, using a jet-fighter style canopy, is probably not the right route because of the complications involving driver extraction. "For me this is a sad moment after what happened," Massa told Motorsport.com. "He [Wilson] is a driver who came and raced in...
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