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Formula One’s new owners Liberty Media have dragged F1 into the 21st century at last by getting rid of the outdated and unnecessary grid girls.

It should have been the most incredible comeback story. Nearly seven years after his life-threatening and life-changing accident, 2008 Canadian Grand Prix winner Robert Kubica appeared set to return to Formula 1 this year with Williams, which would have been his first full-time seat outside of rallying since he raced for Renault in 2010. However, Kubica lost out to Renault reserve driver Sergey Sirotkin. An underwhelming choice, considering they let a perfectly competent driver leave on his own terms.

I recently finished reading Adrian Newey’s autobiography, How to Build a Car, it’s quite good, you should read it.

This visualisation displays the race to the title in each of F1’s seasons to date. It does so by calculating the running total of points from the first to the final race of the season and presenting them as streaming lines.

Quiz full of the 2017 season stats