In the run-up to the start of pre-season testing Motorsport Week brings you left-field reflections and stories of teams, drivers and reserves that will be part of the Formula 1 paddock in 2019. In the 14-year history of the GP2 Series and Formula 2 – ie, since the formation of a rejuvenated and refined Formula 1 feeder series – only seven drivers have pulled off ‘the double’. That is the achievement of winning both the Feature Race and the Sprint Race – an accomplishment made challenging through the victor of Saturday’s encounter starting Sunday’s shorter affair, without a pit stop strategy to intervene, from eighth on the grid. Three of them came...
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