Engineers at Formula Ones top three teams are in agreement that the design of the Halo cockpit protection device can be significantly improved now that it has an extra year of development time.A meeting of the Strategy Group last week saw the introduction of Halo pushed back to 2018 in order to allow for more on-track testing this season. But rather than simply use that time to test the current prototype, engineers from Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull agree the extra 12 months should be used to improve the final design.I think if we had another 12 months we can clearly do a better job of it, Mercedes technical boss Paddy Lowe said. There are things that are not 100% satisfactory. I think the key thing is to make the best of these next 12 months and make something that ticks all the boxes and meets all the requirements of safety and otherwise in the sport and then we take it from there.Halo prototypes have run on track four times this year, while Red Bulls Aeroscreen design ran once in Russia before being dropped to allow the FIA to focus all its efforts on making Halo a workable option for 2017. Red Bulls chief engineer Paul Monaghan believes additional track time and research will allow the FIA to work towards a more desirable final design.Its close, but its not yet a thorough solution and I think if the sport is to do a thorough job then the Halo, or any other derivative thereof, needs a little bit more research, a little bit more work, Monaghan said. Weve run it at one track, one lap, with our test driver [Pierre Gasly], but I wouldnt have said thats really the mechanism by which we should introduce such devices and I think its the right call to defer it.Ferrari chief engineer Jock Clear stressed that the extra development time should not be allowed to go to waste.Obviously the one thing we want to try to do is use those 12 months. As Paddy says, 12 months down the line well know a lot more, but we dont want to ease off, we dont want to say OK, so we dont have to worry about this until August next year. I think the teams will be responsible with it and I know Charlie will and well use those 12 months and get the job done properly.According to the FIAs research, the current Halo design would deflect flying objects away from the driver 17 percent of the time, including large objects such as tyres. 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My shoulders responding a lot better with each outing.HOSMER HOMERAfter Lorenzo Cain was hit by a pitch with two outs in the sixth, Hosmer snapped an 0-for-14 slump with his 14th homer. That got the Royals within 5-2 and chased Griffin.ROAD WOESThe Royals have lost eight of their last nine road games are 17-34 away from home this season.SHORT HOPSThe Rangers failed to score in the fourth after loading the bases with no outs. The first out came when third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert made a diving stop of Elvis Andrus grounder, then got up and threw home for a forceout. A strikeout and groundout followed thatTRAINERS ROOMRoyals: Cain played for the first time since June 28 after missing 25 games because of a left hamstring strain. He was reactivated from the disabled list, and rookie OF Brett Eibner was optioned to Triple-A Omaha. ... 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