Pastor Maldonado

Courtesy of Planet F1 and Tranquility's post in the Belgian PQR thread here's a place to discuss the Williams' No.2

"Is Pastor Maldonado the scariest man in sport? His post-Spa interview was delivered with a stare that could put a weak-hearted man six foot under from a distance of ten yards and culminated in the remarkable, utterly-terrifying announcement that he regards Lewis Hamilton as "a really good friend."

Jeepers.

Just jeepers.

Fear and pray for his enemies."

Pastor started his racing career in Italy in the Formula Renault and F3000. He would have been Formula Renault 3.5 Champion if he hadn't been disqualified from a win at Misano in 2006. Moving on to GP2 Pastor raced for 4 seasons, eventually taking the title in 2010.

With not insubstantial financial backing from Venezuela's national petroleum company, PDVSA, he took Nico Hulkenberg's seat at Williams for 2011 winning his first point last weekend in Belgium.

On a personal level, he is a self proclaimed Socialist and a personal friend of controversial Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, which probably explains the backing from PDVSA.... Oh, and he's 26 and is still wearing braces on his teeth.

 

[RasputinLives]

Guttierrez will be very nice about it I'm sure because that seems to be who he is. At least in the media anyways.

(Miss Piggy is livid though apparently)

 

[Fenderman]

Seriously can't he take responsibility for his actions. How he didn't see him when he was in front of him when he left the pits baffles me.

Maldonado is absolutely incapable of learning from his errors. How the consequences and subsequent penalties have failed to penetrate his consciousness is beyond the perimeters of my comprehension. He is a clear and present danger to himself and anyone and everything else in the vicinity of his time zone. In my opinion he is guilty of being himself, which is a bad thing. M'lud, I rest my case.

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Fenderman . I would go so far to say that your above post is actually comedically poetic, as well as being quite true! Double-like.

 

[Brogan]

Can I just remind everyone of rule 2: http://cliptheapex.com/help/rules-and-guidelines

I have edited a few posts so they aren't in breach of that rule.

 

[Fenderman]

 

[Titch]

Maldonado's style of driving is reckless and aggressive, if he wants a bit of the track he takes it, regardless of the fact that someone else is on it.
And all he gets is a 5 place grid penalty! Ricciardo got a 10 place penalty for an unsafe pit release, in which no one was hurt, where is the consistency?

 

[ExtremeNinja]

This from WTF1.com - Onboard view of the incident from Rosberg.

http://wtf1.co.uk/rosberg-onboard-maldonado-crash/

 

[Johnny Carwash]

I bet when Lotus signed him up for 2014 they were probably not expecting him to have more points on his Super Licence than WDC points after the 3rd race of the season.

 

[teabagyokel]

Johnny Carwash - Had they not watched him race before?

 

[Johnny Carwash]

Only the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix by the looks of it teabagyokel

 

[teabagyokel]

Johnny Carwash - Did they also mistake the Senna that was his team-mate with Ayrton?

 

[Hamberg]

Aaarrrghhhhhh TWAT!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/113501

He's the ****ing reason for them !!!!!!!

 

[teabagyokel]

Hamberg - You can see why he'd feel better if there were no penalties, can't you? No-one would stop him playing full-on Destruction Derby.

Back in the early 2000s, my brother would put on the old F1 games on the PS2, set rules to off and set about winning the Monaco Grand Prix by forcing everyone else to retire. Little did he know that this was Maldonado's long term plan for F1 success.

 

[Titch]

Does he really class driving into the side of the car ahead at full throttle as a racing incident?

 

[F1Yorkshire]

The stand out quote is this one:

"It was a soft crash," he said. "In my opinion it was a normal race contact"

Firstly. If that is Maldonado hitting you softly i'd hate to see what he could do with a hard impact

Secondly, What constitutes a normal race contact? I thought the idea was not to hit each other?

 

[teabagyokel]

In Maldonado's career, race contact has been normal.

 

[Lewywo4]

Maldonado on the track, is obviously a clear and present danger to himself, and other drivers. I wonder how far will his petro dollars protect him from stronger actions being taken against him, because of any future serious incidents, which he becomes involved in?

 

[Fenderman]

I note that he blamed the low nose for exacerbating the incident. Perhaps if he had the ability to see beyond the nose on his face he might not put that low nose where it's not supposed to go.

 

[Mephistopheles]

It was wheel to wheel contact that caused the barrel roll not the low nose If he could be bothered to watch the footage perhaps he would understand that and maybe he will also notice that it was 100% his stupid fault the incident occurred in the first place, I was going to use the word accident but it was about as far away from being an "Accident." one could possibly get before one started using words like "Deliberate." I don't think it was deliberate I just think he's a twat, who should not even be holding a superlicence let alone be complaining about having points on the one he's got...

 

[mjo]

Maldonado - he just went for a spin at about 50mph...