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Fighting over one last seat

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F1i looks at the drivers who are vying for the vacant seat at Manor, the last race drive available on the 2016 grid

Following Manor’s announcement that Pascal Wehrlein will race for the team this season, the 2016 F1 grid is almost complete. Just one race seat at Manor remains, with all the other team’s having confirmed their driver line-ups for the coming year.

Wehrlein has yet to race in F1, and in joining fellow rookie Jolyon Palmer on the grid as well as the returning Kevin Magnussen and Esteban Gutierrez - with neither having raced last year - even the addition of Haas means at least two drivers who were racing last season will be without a drive in 2016.

Here, F1i picks out the main candidates for the remaining seat at Manor and analyses their chances of landing the drive.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.