Junior karting stars to be F1 “grid boys”
Catherine Balston • Nov 09, 2018
It’s goodbye to the grid girls and hello to the F1 stars of the future at São Paulo’s Grand Prix on Sunday
Grid girls have been a hot topic in more ways than one this year
, after the new Formula One owners, Liberty Media, banned the models from the competition in January. Monaco defied the ban in May, however, as did Russia in September, with Russian Grand Prix organiser Sergey Vorobyov quoted as saying "From a safety position we believe it is dangerous to have children on the starting grid. And second, Russian girls are beautiful and we want them at the Russian grand prix”.
Brazil certainly has no lack of beautiful women, but as the Brazilian
Grand Prix approaches this weekend, the decision has been taken to
uphold the ban and choose twenty young karting drivers to be “grid
boys”. These boys, aged between 7 and 11, are no strangers to danger,
either, zipping round chicanes in karts most weekends to race to be
crowned champion of the São Paulo Karting Championships.
The São Paulo Automobile Federation (FASP) chose the twenty grid boys and Story Productions is buzzing with excitement to see that two of the chosen grid boys, Wagner Santilli and Murilo Rocha, are stars of our own karting series, Formula Dreams. Details of the series are still under wraps, but we can reveal that we’ve been following the highs and lows of a group of young São Paulo karting drivers and their families this year and will be revealing more about the series soon.
In the meantime, look out for the boys on the grid on Sunday.
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