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F1 driver union achieves full membership, focuses on improving spectacle

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The Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA) union has achieved full membership, with every driver on the Formula One grid committed to the push to improve the sport.

GPDA chairman Alexander Wurz said it had achieved 100 percent membership for "maybe the first time in history" -- in recent years, Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen, two of the grid's world champions, were previously among those had not joined the organisation. This year saw drivers unite as concerns grew about the current spectacle and the direction the sport is headed.

Speaking to the BBC, Wurz said: "F1 is entering a period of evolution, change and perhaps even a degree of turmoil.