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Jenson Button

Backed by father (and former rallycross racer) John Button, Jenson charted a rapid rise through the ranks of karting, beginning with a flawless performance in the 1991 British Cadet Karting Championship in which he won all 34 races.

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Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton MBE (born 7 January 1985 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England) is a British Formula One racing driver, currently racing for the McLaren Mercedes team, and is the youngest ever Formula One

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Kamui Kobayashi

Kamui Kobayashi born September 13, 1986 in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese  racing driver. He has competed in the GP2 Series, won the GP2 Asia Series, and drove in the FIA Formula One World Championship with the Toyota Formula One team in 2009. He is currently driving with Sauber for the 2010 Season.

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Nico Rosberg

Nico Rosberg (born 27 June 1985 in Wiesbaden, West Germany) is a racing driver for the Mercedes GP Formula One team. He races under the German flag  in Formula One, although he competed for Finland earlier in his career. He holds dual nationality of these two countries.

Rosberg won the 2005 GP2 Series for the ART team, having raced in Formula Three Euroseries previously for his father's team.

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Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher born 3 January 1969) is a Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Mercedes GP. He is a seven-time World Champion  and according to the official Formula One website is "statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen"; he holds many of the formula's driver records, including most championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions, points scored and most races won in a single season – 2004. In 2002 he became the only driver in the sport to complete an entire season finishing 1st, 2nd or 3rd in all races.

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Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel (born July 3, 1987 in Heppenheim, West Germany) is a German race car driver, and the 2009 Formula One World Drivers' Championship Runner-up. He drives for Red Bull Racing.

As of the end of 2009, Vettel holds numerous Formula One records, mostly for being the youngest driver to achieve a certain feat. By taking part in Friday practice for the 2006 Turkish Grand Prix, Vettel became the youngest Formula One driver to drive at a Grand Prix meeting,

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Mark Webber

Mark Alan Webber (born 27 August 1976) is an Australian Formula One driver, and the only Australian to have won a Formula One race since Alan Jones in 1981.

After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career. Webber began a partnership with fellow Australian Paul Stoddart, at that time owner of the European Racing Formula 3000 team, which eventually took them both into Formula One when Stoddart bought the Minardi team.

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Felipe Massa

Felipe Massa (born 25 April 1981) is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He finished a close second in the 2008 Drivers' World Championship, and is under contract to race for Scuderia Ferrari until the end of the 2010 season. During the 2009 season, Luca Badoer replaced Massa in rounds 11 and 12, followed by Giancarlo Fisichella for rounds 13 to 17, after Massa's head injury in the Hungarian Grand Prix.

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Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso Díaz (born 29 July 1981[1]) is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who is currently racing for Ferrari alongside Felipe Massa.

On 25 September 2005, he won the Formula One World Driver's Championship title at the age of 24 years and 58 days, breaking Emerson Fittipaldi's record of being

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Rubens Barrichello

Rubens Gonçalves "Rubinho" Barrichello (born May 23, 1972 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. Driving for the Brawn GP  team, Barrichello finished third in the 2009 championship. He is racing for WilliamsF1 in 2010.

Barrichello has scored the fifth highest points total in Formula One history. Barrichello drove for Ferrari from 2000 to 2005, as Michael Schumacher's teammate,

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Nico Hülkenberg

Nicolas "Nico" Hülkenberg (born 19 August 1987 in Emmerich am Rhein, West Germany) is a German professional racing driver, racing in Formula One for Williams. He is the incumbent champion of the GP2 Series, and is a previous champion of both the Formula Three Euroseries and A1 Grand Prix, as part of A1 Team Germany. He has the distinction of being only the second driver after Lewis Hamilton to win the GP2 series championship in his maiden season.

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Robert Kubica

Robert Kubica (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɛrt kuˈbit͡sa]  ( listen); born December 7, 1984 in Kraków, Poland) is the first Polish racing driver to compete in Formula One. Between 2006 and 2009 he drove for the BMW Sauber F1 team, promoted from test driver to race driver during 2006. In June 2008, Kubica took his maiden F1 victory in the Canadian Grand Prix, becoming the 99th driver to win a World Championship race. For the 2010 season, Kubica is racing for Renault.

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Adrian Sutil

Adrian Sutil (German pronunciation; born January 11, 1983 in Starnberg, West Germany) is a German Formula One racing driver.Sutil is the son of professional musicians Monika, a German, and Jorge, a Uruguayan.

He has two brothers named Daniel and Raphael. He weighs 165 pounds (75 kilograms) and is 6 feet (183 centimeters) tall. A talented pianist, Sutil started karting at 14 before moving up to Swiss  Formula Ford

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Vitantonio Liuzzi

Vitantonio "Tonio" Liuzzi (born 6 August 1981) is an Italian race driver who currently drives for the Force India Formula One team. He lives in Pescara, Italy.

Born in Locorotondo, BA, Apulia, Liuzzi, like many auto racing drivers, began his career in kart racing (at age 9).

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Sébastien Buemi

Sébastien Olivier Buemi (born October 31, 1988 in Aigle, Canton Vaud, Switzerland) is a Swiss racing driver, who competes for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Formula One.

After graduating from karting, Buemi spent 2004 and 2005 in German Formula BMW,

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Jaime Alguersuari

Jaime Víctor Alguersuari Escudero (Spanish pronunciation: born March 23, 1990 in Barcelona), is a Spanish racing  driver who became the youngest Formula One driver in history at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix.

Alguersuari is the first, and currently the only, driver to be born in the 1990s to compete in Formula One.

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Jarno Trulli

Jarno Trulli (born July 13, 1974 in Pescara, Abruzzo) is an Italian  Formula One racing driver. He has been a regular in Formula One since 1997, driving for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault  and Toyota. He won the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix for Renault, his only Grand Prix victory to date. He is known for being a qualification expert. After Toyota pulled out of the sport, following the 2009 season,

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Heikki Kovalainen

Heikki Johannes Kovalainen[1]  (born October 19, 1981 in Suomussalmi, Finland) is a Finnish  Formula One racing driver who spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons with British based team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, and drives for the new Lotus Racing team for the 2010 campaign.

He was supported by the Renault Driver Development programme early in his racing career,

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Bruno Senna

Bruno Senna Lalli (born 15 October 1983 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver and the nephew of the late three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna. His mother is Ayrton's sister, Viviane. His father, Flávio Lalli, died in a motorcycle crash in 1996. He wears a slightly modified version of his uncle's helmet. Current driver Lewis Hamilton was a supporter of Bruno's uncle and he also copied his helmet from Ayrton Senna's.

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Lucas di Grassi

Lucas Tucci di Grassi (born 11 August 1984 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. Having finished as runner-up to Timo Glock in the 2007 GP2 Series season, he is the race driver for new Formula One team Virgin Racing in 2010, alongside his former rival Glock.Di Grassi's career in karting peaked in 2000, with a 5th place in the Formula A World Championship.

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Timo Glock

Timo Glock (born 18 March 1982) is a German motor racing driver. At the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, standing in for Giorgio Pantano who had a contract dispute with Jordan Grand Prix, he joined a select group of drivers who have scored a World Championship point in their first Formula One race. He has been signed by F1 newcomers Virgin Racing and will be their lead driver for 2010.

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Pedro de la Rosa

Pedro Martínez de la Rosa (born 24 February 1971 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Formula One driver who drives for the Sauber team after six years of being a test driver for McLaren. De la Rosa has participated in 72 Grands Prix, debuting on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race. He has scored a total of 29 championship points, which included a podium finish at the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix.

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