Every driver on the starting grid has scored this season.
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More than 200 drivers from 16 different countries are on the starting grid.
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Mercedes have been one-two on the starting grid in the last eight races.
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But my task is to have our girls still going on the starting grid.
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"The nervousness on the starting grid is a shadow of what it was," Stewart said.
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The winner in Texas has always come from the top two on the starting grid.
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As a result, Sorenson was retired from the race and eliminated from Daytona 500 starting-grid contention.
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The Finn, now 36 and the oldest driver on the starting grid, wanted another shot at a championship.
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Qualifying is on Saturday with 33 spots on the starting grid for the May 28th race up for grabs.
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The only Russian on the starting grid, Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat, will line up last due to engine penalties.
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The move means KTM, which already has a factory team, will have four bikes on the starting grid next year.
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Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin joined Truex for the manufacturer's top-three on the starting grid.
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The only Russian currently on the starting grid, Kvyat has plenty of admirers but has also become embroiled in controversy.
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Lorenzo's Italian team mate Valentino Rossi completed the front row of the starting grid for the third race of the season.
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Russian Sergey Sirotkin appears favorite for the drive, the only remaining vacancy on the starting grid, rather than Poland's comeback hopeful Robert Kubica.
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A total of seven drivers are eliminated, and will take the lowest spots on the starting grid; 15 progress to the second round.
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Alonso demonstrated his talent this month in Spain, his home country, by dragging an uncompetitive car up to seventh on the starting grid.
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As a result, the starting grid was set based on Friday practice speeds, putting Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the front row.
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Williams have scored just seven points in 19 races, six of them thanks to Stroll who is also the youngest on the starting grid.
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And what I've noticed in DTM, for instance, kicking it off from the starting grid is awesome, that's when a lot of the fun happens.
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The Petronas Yamaha rider also set a circuit record of one minute 36.880 seconds as he clinched his spot at the front of the starting grid.
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Bottas, who had largely the same set-up, was consistently quicker and out-qualified him for third place on the starting grid behind the two Ferraris.
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Italy-based Toro Rosso, one of the smaller outfits on the starting grid, have taken the cynicism and gloom-mongering about their prospects in good heart.
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Azerbaijan Grand Prix winner Ricciardo made 43 overtakes, including 13 at Silverstone where he went from 19th on the British GP starting grid to finish fifth.
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That distinction appeared lost on some, with drivers asked at a scheduled news conference about the apparent return of walk-on models to the Monaco starting grid.
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Taking cues from other legacy motorsports, Formula E allows a healthy number of VIP fans and media to walk the starting grid the hour before the race.
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For the first time in 31 races, since Singapore in September 2015, grand prix fans will see a starting grid without a Mercedes on the front row.
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The Brazilian Felipe Massa started in pole position, followed on the starting grid by Kimi Raikkonen and Hamilton, then a young McLaren pilot in his second season.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Colombian Tatiana Calderon has joined Sauber in the role of development driver, hoping eventually to break the male domination of the Formula One starting grid.
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Kurt Busch, though, had to drop to the back in his backup car after a practice crash, as his crash came after the starting grid was set.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One is ending the use of female models who parade on the starting grid and stand with the drivers' name boards before every grand prix.
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Friesen still had a solid day, an impressive rally from last place on the starting grid to seventh at the checkered flag — forced to conserve fuel down the homestretch.
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MONACO (Reuters) - Formula One has dispensed, since the beginning of the year, with female models parading on the starting grid but sponsors have been quick to fill the gap.
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In the last 15 laps, after a change to extreme wet tyres, Verstappen passed more than half the starting grid as he went from 16th place to the podium.
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Raikkonen is the oldest driver in the sport and remains the last Ferrari driver to have won a title and one of the most popular on the starting grid.
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Williams' Canadian Nicholas Latifi is the only rookie on the starting grid, with Frenchman Esteban Ocon returning at Renault alongside Australian Daniel Ricciardo after a year on the sidelines.
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Friday's afternoon session at the Suzuka circuit will decide the starting grid for the race if conditions have not improved enough for the hour-long qualifying at 10 a.
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Sauber said the move, which keeps three world champions on the starting grid next season after Spaniard Fernando Alonso's departure from the sport, represented "an important pillar of our project".
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Kubica, 33, had been hoping to get the race seat and return to the starting grid for the first time since a 2011 rally accident partially severed his right arm.
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BAKU (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton returned to the front row of the Formula One starting grid on Saturday after a two-race absence and said it was good to be back.
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The newest team on the starting grid, who made their debut in 2016, have produced an impressively quick car whose resemblance to last year's race-winning Ferrari has been highlighted.
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Red Bull, who have Verstappen signed up to the end of 2020, want to keep the Australian in what is one of the most exciting pairings on the starting grid.
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Team mate Max Verstappen, who will drop to the back end of the starting grid due to engine changes along with Gasly and Norris, was fifth in the second session.
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Any driver receiving three reprimands in a season — at least two of them for driving offenses — will receive a 10-place drop on the starting grid at the next race.
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Honda's engine has been the least reliable and slowest on the starting grid for the past three seasons, with the Japanese company's reputation badly damaged by the failed relationship with McLaren.
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As an accredited member of the McLaren team, Murray had access to the Pit Garages building, which had a view over the starting grid, the paddock, and the entire pit lane.
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Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders performed in front of the grandstand, Hollywood actors appeared on the starting grid and Jamaica's Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt waved the cars off for the formation lap.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Honda's Dani Pedrosa will start his home Grand Prix of Catalunya from pole position with Yamaha's MotoGP leader Maverick Vinales only ninth on the starting grid after Saturday's qualifying.
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When Max Verstappen was 17 he was already on the Formula One starting grid and the Barrichellos have not ruled out a move to Europe if the right opportunity presents itself.
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The German's absence was understandable given the commotion around his car on the starting grid as the Italian team's mechanics hurried to fix a spark plug problem with the clock ticking.
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Even privately-owned Manor Racing, the smallest team on the starting grid, have yet to appoint a principal after the departure of founder John Booth at the end of last season.
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For the first time since the days of 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve, the Canadian Grand Prix will have some true home interest with teenager Stroll on the starting grid for Williams.
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As predicted, after being slowest in testing, the former world champions were last on the season-opening starting grid with Britain's Russell in 19th place and Polish team mate Robert Kubica 20th.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former world champions Williams have put their faith in the youngest and least experienced driver lineup on the Formula One starting grid, and it could come back and bite them.
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Racing director Frederic Vasseur told reporters in Russia that Renault, who had Magnussen and Britain's Jolyon Palmer 17th and 18th on the starting grid in Sochi, had to improve their qualifying performance.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The competition for the last three slots on the 2017 Formula One starting grid is hotting up but Indonesian driver Rio Haryanto believes he is still in with a shout.
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Haryanto has brought at least five million euros ($5.51 million) to the sport's smallest team, thanks to state oil sponsor Pertamina, and will be the only Asian driver on the starting grid.
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Filmed without the cooperation of world champions Mercedes and rivals Ferrari, it focuses on those further down the starting grid such as the U.S.-owned Haas team and their principal Guenther Steiner.
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Williams have an all-new lineup in British rookie George Russell and Poland's Robert Kubica, returning to the starting grid for the first time since a near-fatal rally accident in 2011.
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It will also please Formula One's owners, already facing the retirement of double world champion Fernando Alonso, by keeping one of the best known and most popular drivers on the starting grid.
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The problems were highlighted at last season's drenched and chaotic Brazilian Grand Prix in November, with Frenchman Romain Grosjean spinning his Haas into the wall on his way to the starting grid.
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Kubica, who had been hoping to return to the starting grid for the first time since a 2011 rally accident partly severed his right arm, was appointed reserve and development driver instead.
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Engine problems forced the German out of Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix on the fourth lap after his Ferrari mechanics had worked feverishly on the starting grid to try and fix an engine problem.
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Mercedes driver Hamilton, who had suffered engine failures earlier in the year, took a 55-place starting grid penalty at last month's Belgian Grand Prix for exceeding his permitted allocation of engine components.
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Mercedes flew parts in by private jet from Britain overnight to keep Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton on Sunday's Russian Grand Prix starting grid after engine problems in qualifying.
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Stroll, who will be the youngest and least experienced driver on the Formula One starting grid when the season starts in Melbourne on March 26, said the mishap had not dented his confidence.
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The first 10-part documentary series filmed in 2018 and released this year focused mostly on teams further down the starting grid after the top two decided not to be part of it.
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The oldest, most glamorous and successful team on the starting grid came close last year, with their German driver leading through the opening 22018 rounds from Melbourne until Monza before the challenge unraveled.
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Nearly a decade on from Vitaly Petrov becoming the first Russian driver to race in Formula One, the country could be the most represented on the starting grid next season.
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Bravery is the currency that will get you onto Victory Lane at the Brickyard and for many of the 33 drivers on the starting grid on Sunday there was none braver than Lauda.
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Hamilton was helped by an engine problem sidelining Vettel in qualifying and another issue preventing the German's team mate Kimi Raikkonen from taking his place on the front row of the starting grid.
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So what you get is lots of starting grid action, lots of first corner, second corner action, and then it kind of settles down, but you get more and more of those races.
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In a wild race of changing fortunes and endless drama, punctuated by crashes and safety car periods, Ferrari's home crowd favorite Sebastian Vettel charged from last on the starting grid to second place.
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Button is the most experienced driver on the starting grid and while his sabbatical is likely to spell the end of his Formula One racing career, he said he could still compete elsewhere.
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The sport has also talked of experimenting at three rounds next year with plans for sprint races to be held on the Saturday afternoon to decide Sunday's starting grid instead of traditional qualifying.
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Despite driving for the last placed team of 2019, and barring any driver switches during the course of the campaign, the only newcomer on the starting grid already looks a winner of sorts.
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"I prayed for a day like this so I feel truly blessed," said Hamilton, who had cut a disconsolate figure after a fuel pressure problem in qualifying left him third on the starting grid.
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The Italian team, who also have Kimi Raikkonen second on the starting grid, appear to be the ones to beat in Bahrain and Hamilton's hopes could well be pinned on just such an upset.
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HOCKENHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton prepared for the drive of his life after an hydraulics problem in qualifying left him 14th on the starting grid for Sunday's German Grand Prix.
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On the starting grid, Vettel moved slightly before the lights went out and then stopped, escaping punishment because his tyres did not cross the line to trigger a sensor — a decision Verstappen also questioned.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Fernando Alonso was quickly up to speed at the famed Brickyard on Wednesday, blazing through his IndyCar rookie orientation to close in on earning a spot on the Indianapolis 21 starting grid.
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The victory, from sixth on the starting grid, was a morale-booster for the 28-year-old after a frustrating start to the season and comes as he is deciding his next career move.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Four times world champion Lewis Hamilton is Britain's sole representative on the Formula One starting grid this season but it may not be long before the Mercedes driver is joined by another.
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SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) - Britain's Jenson Button, the most experienced driver on the Formula One starting grid, says he needs a competitive car if he is to stay in the sport for an 18th season.
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Eight points clear of Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton — the race winner from 14th on the starting grid — before the start, he ended the day 17 points adrift and he had nobody to blame but himself.
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He was able to start ninth instead of going to the back at the green flag because his wreck came before the originally scheduled time for qualifying and before the starting grid was set.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One will have no female models parading on the starting grid this season but will still be a sport of "glamor and mystique", according to chairman and chief executive Chase Carey.
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Hamilton, 33 points behind the German with four rounds remaining, has won three of the past four races in Austin but had never before managed to seize top slot on the starting grid in Texas.
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Williams, fifth for the past two seasons after finishing third in 2015, could have a tough year ahead with the youngest lineup on the starting grid in Canadian teenager Lance Stroll and Russian Sergey Sirotkin.
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Haryanto failed to score a point in the season's first 12 races for the smallest team on the starting grid who are 10th overall in the standings after Wehrlein finished 10th in Austria in July.
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The Finn, who will be 37 in October, is the oldest driver on the starting grid but also one of the most popular among fans who admire his no-nonsense attitude and focus on racing.
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But the "other Brit" on the starting grid, now that Jenson Button has departed and left Lewis Hamilton as the country's only active world champion, is hoping to leave a stronger impression second time around.
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The four-times Formula One world champion had never before won a grand prix from lower than sixth on the starting grid but at a wet Hockenheim, he steered his silver Mercedes from 14th to first.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Dreams can come true but so do tragedies and Stefan Wilson will deal with both on Sunday when he takes his place on the starting grid for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500.
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The sport had revealed last week, to the delight of some fans and anger of others, that it was phasing out the walk-on models who have been a feature of the starting grid for decades.
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Formula One has not had a woman race driver on the starting grid since the 1970s but is far more mixed off the track, with female engineers and mechanics as well as in media and marketing.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Electric racing series Formula E has welcomed, with a little dig, Formula One's decision to end the use of female models who stand on the starting grid holding up drivers' name boards before races.
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Ferrari have Kimi Raikkonen, the 2007 champion and oldest driver on the starting grid at 36, out of contract at the end of 2017 and Perez started out as a member of the Ferrari young driver academy.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Renault announced the Formula One comeback of Danish driver Kevin Magnussen at the launch on Wednesday of a new-look team that will put the French carmaker back on the starting grid as a constructor.
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That means that nobody on the current starting grid is a previous winner in Baku and only Vettel, who was a distant second that day, and Force India's Mexican Sergio Perez have stood on the podium there.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Nico Hulkenberg was handed a three place starting grid penalty for Sunday's Chinese Formula One Grand Prix after the left front wheel on his Force India car came off and bounced away during Saturday's qualifying.
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With the 21-year-old Monegasque demanding answers after being left 16th on the starting grid, Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto accepted the sport's oldest and most successful team had, not for the first time, got their sums wrong.
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India's ex-Formula One and Le Mans 24 Hours driver Karun Chandhok said there was plenty of joking about a gamer one day ending up on the real starting grid but there was a serious side to that.
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Rivals also will see a dream vacancy that every driver on the starting grid would jump at if given the chance, Mercedes being the most dominant team in the sport with 19 wins in 21 races this season.
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Formula One has not had a woman race driver on the starting grid since the 1970s but is now far more mixed off the track, with female engineers, aerodynamicists and mechanics as well as in media and marketing.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jenson Button's departure from Formula One last year had one local website reflecting on the sad fact that the English county of Somerset would have no driver on the starting grid for the first time since 21.
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Hamilton is 43 points behind Rosberg in the standings after power unit failures in the last two race weekends that sent him to the back of the field in China and to 10th on the starting grid in Russia.
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The 22-year-old had lined up on the back row of the starting grid, 19th of the 20 drivers, and any hopes of progressing up through the field disappeared when he became the first retirement of the season.
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Seeing the starting grid reduced to 20 cars, two months before the season's opening race in Australia, is likely to stiffen the resolve of the sport's new owners Liberty Media to change the system and help smaller teams survive.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One's 'halo' head protection device makes its race debut this season in a 21-round championship with France and Germany back on the calendar and some new faces joining the old favorites on the starting grid.
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Last week's decision to abandon the decades-old practice of using walk-on female models to parade and hold up drivers' numbers on the starting grid has put the sport on the front pages of newspapers and divided fans.
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With nearly 1.4 billion people, China is the world's most populous country but 15 years on from its first Formula One race it is still waiting for a driver to fill one of the 20 slots on the starting grid.
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PARIS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Renault announced the Formula One comeback of Danish driver Kevin Magnussen at the launch on Wednesday of a new-look team that will put the French carmaker back on the starting grid as a constructor this season.
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McLaren have not won a race since 2012 and this season switched from Honda to Renault engines, a move that exposed the weakness of a chassis that the team had thought to be one of the best on the starting grid.
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Mercedes began their search for a new driver on Monday with non-executive chairman Niki Lauda saying at the weekend that he hoped the most-prized seat on the starting grid could be filled by the end of the year.
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Five rookies will be on the starting grid, including Matt Brabham, grandson of Formula One champion Jack Brabham, and Stefan Wilson, younger brother of Justin Wilson who last year was killed in a high-speed mishap at the Pocono oval.
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Rule changes this year have made the cars faster and harder to drive, a move welcomed by those on the starting grid, while Liberty have brought in experts to address other issues such as improving the show and noise levels.
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"It's a great and emotional experience for these kids to be on the starting grid, next to the drivers and cars that they might drive one day, so hopefully it also works as a good motivation for them," it added.
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Hamilton banished memories of a dismal qualifying session in Baku last year, when he clipped the barrier and had to settle for 10th place on the starting grid, to grab pole with a time of 1:40.593 despite running wide at Turn 16.
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When you're talking about a grid, instead of just shifting the grid in the plane, you're allowed to twist the grid, or stretch it in some places and contract it in others, so that the transformed grid no longer overlays perfectly on the starting grid.
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With no help from his team on the starting grid, Hamilton did a poor job of selecting his gears for the start of both of the first two races, allowing his teammate, Nico Rosberg, to win both races, with Hamilton finishing second and third.
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Proud to be the youngest, he said his aim was to "at least end the year a better driver than I started" and had no plans to let his status as a Formula One driver, lining up on the starting grid with Hamilton, go to his head.
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A lack that, not just on the starting grid but up and down the F1 paddock at all levels of the sport is a concern for Formula One's first black driver, who grew up on a council estate and defied the odds to become the sport's biggest name.
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With no French Grand Prix on the Formula One calendar until next year and only two Frenchmen on the starting grid — Force India's Esteban Ocon and Haas Racing's Romain Grosjean — motor racing fans in France have had little to cheer since the days of four-times world champion Alain Prost.
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Stroll will be the youngest driver on the starting grid next season, but not the youngest ever to start a race — that accolade belongs to Red Bull's Max Verstappen who was 17 years and 166 days old when he made his debut for Toro Rosso at the Australian grand prix 2015.
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Stroll will be the youngest driver on the starting grid next season, but not the youngest ever to start a race — that accolade belongs to Red Bull's Max Verstappen who was 17 years and 166 days old when he made his debut for Toro Rosso at the Australian Grand Prix in 2015.
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"Through my years in motorsport, he was supportive of my mission to make it onto the starting grid in F1," added Wolff, who in 2014 became the first woman driver in 22 years to take part in a Formula One grand prix weekend when she drove in Friday practice at Silverstone for Williams.
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