Bad news: Pastor in the schopstoel at Renault

Posted on 29-01-2016 at 13:05 by jaapiyo – 30 Comments”

Allegedly, it is a matter of days before Kevin Magnussen is confirmed at Renault’s F1 team. This would probably end the F1 career of Pastor Maldonado, the hero of the F1.

Pastor Maldonado, a lot of F1 fans are been waiting for the moment that he was no longer on the starting grid of the F1 races will appear. I am not one of those people. In fact, if the reports turn out to be wrong, and there seems now, however, I would be a sincere shame. In short, indeed, this is a ” In defense of: Pastor Maldonado’.

Pastor is one of those, now rare, F1 drivers who always go for it. Ok, he knows he is at a demo run in his car, sometimes crashing. And ok, in the races it sometimes ends in tears, but how often have we not sit down to complain about races without inhaalacties, where the racers as waggonetjes in a train meek to the finish line thunder. Pastor is not one of those doesn ” t matter.

In addition, sites like hasmaldonadocrashedtoday then stabbing the dragon with the Venezolaan, but below the line are the all-out results not so bad:

2011: Williams FW33, teammate Barichello (no megaheld but still a respected and experienced driver). Barichello two ninth place, 4 points. Maldonado one tenth place, 1 point.

2012: Williams FW34, team-mate Bruno Senna (no Ayrton, but 2nd in GP2). Senna ten times small spots, a total of 31 points. Maldonado five times in points, including one victory, in a total of 45 points. Although this is the best car that Maldo had was Williams that year eighth in the world cup. Ok, partly you could say that if Maldonado more often results it was they had done, but the good results were mainly in the beginning of the season because of Williams here and there could make the tyre wear, not all of the teams below the knee.

2013: Williams FW35, team-mate Bottas (doing great at Williams). Bottas one-eighth place, 4 points. Maldonado one tenth place, 1 point. In short, a car you didn’t.

2014: Lotus E22, as team-mate Grosjean (the year before, not far away from Kimi). Grosjean two eighth place, eight points. Maldonado, one ninth place, two points. A grafbak so.

2015 Lotus E23, team-mate Grosjean. Grosjean 51 points, Maldonado 27 points. This was a Pastor’s worst year because he was also in the qualification was dried by Romain.

A lot of bad cars and a very unfortunate choice for Williams to leave for Lotus, right at the moment the first team is a step forward with their car and the second team is imploding, help the results, of course not.

Then there is the story of PDVSA, by the socialist Hugo Chavez geapproprieerde oil company of Venezuela, that millions in the career of Pastor and initially a zwik other Venezuelan riders pumped. Everything you need to know about this regime and Hugo Chavez is that this is the ‘coat of arms of Venezuela was from 1954 to 2006:

And this one from 2006:

Yes, that horse in the middle is moved to first continue to the right and to the left. It is still a mighty pretty apparent contradiction that it was precisely such a regime tens of millions per year in the most capitalist sport in the world stops? It also fits well with the ‘rogue of the F1 story.

But above all, there is that ‘one fine day’. That once but never more. The magic of the sportsman win, and then never level it, while everyone else has seen it somewhere or worried and continues to hope that it again can. That one day, may 13, 2012, where at the circuit of Catalunya in Spain, all suddenly went well. In a direct battle with local matador, Ferrari driver and two-time world champion Fernando Alonso as the winner out of the ditch appear. Then your nephew, who incidentally this year is going to compete in the Italian Formula 4, from a burning pit box drag. Ok, there are more F1 drivers who have only one once on the highest step of the stage stood. Olivier Panis, Jarno Trulli and Heiki Kovalainen for example. But most of them had been long a few times on the stage. Pastor on the other hand…one victory, not stolen. Next best result; one fifth place.

But now is probably Kevin Magnussen, the place of Pastor to take. A Dane whose F1 career as a fizzle out seemed to go, just like that of his father before all happened. The facts of his first year; 55 points compared to team-mate Jenson Button’s 126 points, kwalificatieduel lost with nine against ten. No, I’m not excited about this news…