Maldonado. Not of this planet..
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Crafty_ said:
Matt UK said:
Does he bring so much to Lotus that they couldn't survive without him? This simply must be the case..
Yes.Lotus are deep in the brown smelly stuff.
"Top of the list is the Williams driver Pastor Maldonado, who is worth an estimated £45m to his team because he has the backing of Venezuela's national oil company, PDVSA. Maldonado is a friend of the Venezuela president, Hugo Chávez."
djgritt said:
Surely a time will come where PDVSA say enough is enough, and pull/cut his funding. Advertising for them or not, they must be getting pissed off that they are paying through the teeth for a local boy to just go for a bit of a drive at weekends.
Don't forget they are still buying themselves out of their Williams contract. So Williams will also be a few shillings short next year, but may leave PDVSA with more cash to support Madonado.The Pastor has spoken:
Pastor Maldonado said his Spanish Grand Prix qualifying accident was a "very strange" one that could have been caused by low tyre pressures.
The Lotus driver failed to set a time in qualifying after losing control at Turn 3 on his first flying lap of Q1.
Maldonado, who won the 2012 Spanish GP for Williams, speared back across the track and hit the inside wall, damaging his Lotus's right-front corner.
"I think there was something wrong with the tyre temperature or pressure," he said.
"The car just skated, it's a very fast corner, and then I went over to the green path which is paint and is more slippery and I lost the car more over there.
"It was in the exit of the corner. The corner was already done. Normally all the drivers are running over that green paint, like me yesterday and always.
"It's a difficult part of the track but I think the problem came from something before."
Obviously. Bless his little cottons.
Pastor Maldonado said his Spanish Grand Prix qualifying accident was a "very strange" one that could have been caused by low tyre pressures.
The Lotus driver failed to set a time in qualifying after losing control at Turn 3 on his first flying lap of Q1.
Maldonado, who won the 2012 Spanish GP for Williams, speared back across the track and hit the inside wall, damaging his Lotus's right-front corner.
"I think there was something wrong with the tyre temperature or pressure," he said.
"The car just skated, it's a very fast corner, and then I went over to the green path which is paint and is more slippery and I lost the car more over there.
"It was in the exit of the corner. The corner was already done. Normally all the drivers are running over that green paint, like me yesterday and always.
"It's a difficult part of the track but I think the problem came from something before."
Obviously. Bless his little cottons.
And PDVSA paid Williams $25 million to get Mouldy Pasta out of his contract and go to Lotus. Add to that what they paid would have paid Lotus then it's just piling on the PDVSA's debt burden - http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/130123/pdvsas-...
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