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Why Bird at Jaguar will help the team fly in Formula E

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Sam Bird will fly the Virgin Racing nest at the end of the current Formula E campaign to Jaguar, taking his considerable talent to bolster a line-up that threatens to pounce on next season's title

In deference to Lewis Hamilton's staggering Styrian Grand Prix pole lap that put him 1.2 seconds clear of Max Verstappen, former Formula 1 driver Mark Webber tweeted: "There's a[n] F1 category, and then there's a[n] F1 PLUS category".

If - for simplicity's sake - you consider the 20 drivers in F1 to be the 20 best in the world, even within that pool there's still an upper echelon of talent, a 'PLUS' tier reserved for the likes of Hamilton, Verstappen and Charles Leclerc.

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