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[Meanie]

What's the use for that?

I was looking through some old Ayrton Senna's pictures and noticed he used tape gloves a lot under his proper gloves.
Then, accidentally, I found Bruno Senna using the same kind of tape gloves, recently, in GP2.

I've got to admit that in modern F1 (and we get to see them put on/off the gloves a lot) I've never seen tape gloves.
I'm sure the racing gloves are pretty advanced and all that for padding and whatnot.

So, why a recent GP2 driver used a tape glove?
Why his uncle did so?

What's the advantage?
Protection for the hand? Wouldn't it reduce some of the hands' sensibility?

I'm puzzled.

[Ross Stonefeld]

You mean he's wrapped his hands in tape or gauze before putting the gloves on? I think that's just to reduce blisters.