article_snippet.sent: The use of models, also referred to as 'race queens' or 'umbrella girls', to stand by cars with flags or placards displaying drivers' numbers has long been a feature of Formula One.
article_snippet.sent: The Hawiian Tropic Girls arrive on the grid before the start of the Le Mans 24 Hour Race in 2001 .
article_snippet.sent: Neveu said the cars would line up diagonally opposite the pit wall and grandstand as if for an old-style 'Le Mans start'.
article_snippet.sent: In Le Mans of old, before safety concerns stopped the practice, drivers would run across the track to the cars but at Silverstone there will be a rolling start.
article_snippet.sent: The show will start from the grid... but the star at the end is the sportscars and the drivers of the car.'
highlights_snippet.sent: World endurance championship begins at Silverstone on April 12 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Scantily-clad beauties traditionally pose next to cars before races .
  