F1 is moving to reduce the risk posed by flying wheels.<\/p>\n
Last year, GP2 driver Henry Surtees died when a stray wheel from a crashed car struck him on the head.<\/p>\n
There was a similar incident during the final practice session at Hockenheim last weekend, with Timo Glock narrowly avoiding a bouncing wheel after Vitantonio Liuzzi’s crash.<\/p>\n
“I was lucky that I left a bit of room behind Liuzzi in the Motodrom to warm up my brakes.\u00a0 Otherwise I would have been right behind him,” the German told Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n
A tether on Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari broke in his Monaco crash this year.<\/p>\n
F1 introduced wheel tethers in 1998, connecting the wheels to the chassis.\u00a0 They are made of a special polymer called polybenzoaoxide or Zylon.<\/p>\n
But flying wheels continue to pose a risk to drivers as well as to spectators, as seen in Melbourne in 2001 with the death of a marshal behind the spectator fencing, and in 2000 when a marshal was killed at Monza.<\/p>\n
“Tethers are of great concern to us,” said McLaren’s engineering director Paddy Lowe.<\/p>\n
“We discussed the issue at the Technical Working Group and we have agreed for next year to introduce a second tether on every corner,” he revealed to reporters during a teleconference.<\/p>\n
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