Going through the 2019 Formula 1 grid you can assign most of the 20 drivers to a typology. You have the top-drawer talents: Lewis Hamilton; Sebastian Vettel; Max Verstappen; Daniel Ricciardo. You then have what one might term the slightly lower order, safe-pair-of-hands sort: Kimi Raikkonen; Valtteri Bottas; Romain Grosjean. You have the promising up and comers: Charles Leclerc; Pierre Gasly; Antonio Giovanazzi; the three British debutants. Then of course you have pay drivers, though this year it’s a status largely confined to Lance Stroll. You have Nico Hulkenberg and Carlos Sainz who rather straddle more than one category. They share elements of the up and comer in that we await to...
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