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Old 16 Oct 2018, 10:19 (Ref:3857102)   #76
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And here it is, average qualifying and average starting:

https://www.racefans.net/2018-f1-sea...alifying-data/

On this basis the current leader is Ricciardo who has been 0.76 places lower on the grid than he qualified. The reason being that once a grid penalty has been received the teams save tyres rather than qualify.
No easy answers!
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