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Stat analysis: How does F1's 2016 rookie class stack up?

As Jolyon Palmer, Rio Haryanto and Pascal Wehrlein gear up for their Formula 1 debuts this weekend, Valentin Khorounzhiy delves into the record books to assess how each will fare in 2016. Before Romain Grosjean traded Enstone for Kannapolis and before Manor changed its entire line-up, there had seemed to be a real possibility that F1 would have no rookie class of 2016 to speak of. But while three drivers will get to make up F1's new blood for this year after all, they are all rather unusual cases. One hasn't raced in a competitive open-wheel championship since 2013, one hasn't raced at all last year and one enters F1 despite being below the newly-set Superlicense threshold. Off-track, all...
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