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Red Bull set to test cockpit protection at next F1 event

Published Apr. 17, 2016 1:47 p.m. ET

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Red Bull is pressing on with the development of its alternative to the FIA-preferred “halo” concept for cockpit protection for 2017.

F1's governing body has played down the notion that Red Bull's open-topped, bulletproof-windshield system might get the green light.

But Red Bull chief Christian Horner said the concept will be tested anyway next week, when a wheel is fired at it while attached to a static structure.

“If that goes OK, we may put it on one car very briefly in Sochi,” he told British television Sky, referring to the forthcoming Russian Grand Prix weekend.

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