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Jolyon Palmer says the integration of the halo head protection system 鈥渋s a step too far鈥� for Formula 1.

Speaking with Jennie Gow and commentator Jack Nicholls, the former Renault driver went on to say: 鈥淚t鈥檚 against the tradition of open-cockpit cars, and I feel it鈥檚 extremely unnecessary.

鈥淲e had a lot of presentations about it in the last few years, and I think as far as I know in Formula 1, it actually wouldn鈥檛 have saved anyone. I mean, the last death 鈥� Jules Bianchi, very tragic - and it was proven that halo actually would have made no difference. That鈥檚 from the designers of halo,鈥� the Briton added.

Palmer will join the 5 live Formula 1 team for the 2018 season.

This clip is originally from the Chequered Flag podcast on Thursday, 22 February 2018.