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Every driver who races single-seaters aspires to reach the pinnacle of the sport, Formula 1. The vast majority of them will fail, many because they simply aren't good enough to earn a place.
Others do have what it takes but fall by the wayside for myriad reasons, be it insufficient funding, lack of opportunity, injury and, in a few thankfully increasingly rare cases, death.
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