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Examples
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I saw Mark made a mistake as we caught up with the backmarkers so I got the chance to slipstream him.
Lewis Hamilton admits Formula One title hopes are in tatters Paul Weaver at Marina Bay 2010
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The crash on Turn 12 will lead to an investigation into the disparity between the speeds of the leading cars and the backmarkers.
'I'm lucky to be in one piece,' admits Mark Webber after 190mph crash Paul Weaver in Valencia 2010
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I was managing the fuel, letting some backmarkers pass me.
SI.com 2011
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I was managing the fuel, letting some backmarkers pass me.
SI.com 2011
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Watching Ward drive down the outside of the grid left backmarkers thinking the race had begun, and they surged forward, narrowly avoiding disaster as they enountered the stationary cars ahead.
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A gaggle of backmarkers, though, scuppered any hope of a challenge in the dying laps, leaving Vettel to again take the plaudits and the acclaim from a packed grandstand at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Vettel looked untroubled until the closing stages as Button cut the gap by six seconds in just five laps to get within 3.7 seconds with three laps to go, but the Briton was hampered on his chase by backmarkers.
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"In a matter of weeks ... you will be able to see both what is going to happen at, effectively, state-owned banks, where I absolutely believe they should not be the front-markers on bonus payments they will be the backmarkers," Cameron said.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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A gaggle of backmarkers, though, scuppered any hope of a challenge in the dying laps, leaving Vettel to again take the plaudits and the acclaim from a packed grandstand at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Fernando Alonso did not have to worry about backmarkers when he won the opening grand prix of the season in Bahrain.
Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk Maurice Hamilton 2010
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