Ferrari has become the first team to test a proposed new F1 safety measure in which the driver’s entire head is wrapped in a massive roll of cotton wool.

While in Barcelona this week, the Italian team sent Kimi Raikkonen out for two laps with his entire head wrapped in a massive roll of cotton wool to see how this would affect visibility and aerodynamics, as well as to gauge reaction to the appearance of the car once the driver had his entire head wrapped in a massive roll of cotton wool.

‘For sure, reaction to the driver having his entire head wrapped in a massive roll of cotton wool has been mixed,’ admitted Ferrari’s director of forward planning Luca Head. ‘Some think it is good to have more safety, some think it is good to be able to, for example, see where you are going.’

For his part, Raikkonen described having his entire head wrapped in a massive roll of cotton wool as ‘fine’ though his findings may be skewing as it was later discovered that the cotton wool had somehow been soaked in vodka.