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Pole position markings at the Nürburgring in Germany. The checkered line above it is the circuit's start/finish line.
In a motorsports race, pole position is the best position on the track at the start and thus, by definition, the participant in pole position is starting it from first place.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pole position” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.