What Are the Options Open to Pastor Maldonado for 2014?

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Published: October 25, 2013

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It all seems to be happening for Pastor Maldonado at this current moment in time.

A wheel nut fell off his Williams in FP2 of the Indian Grand Prix, leading to a puncture and curtailing his session.

And it emerged last week that an investigation was underway into claims that at least one Venezuelan driver was among those making currency exchanges into dollars at a preferential rate to sell on at a profit on the black market.

 



Maldonado brings substantial sponsorship to Williams in the form of PDVSA but he told Autosport that he was not worried about the situation and was not one of those drivers involved.

It's not concerning me because I never received money from the Venezuelan state or government. What really happened is that the money is not free and the drivers need to pay for that money because it is currency exchange. There is a programme in Venezuela for sport and you can change money at a lower price. What I heard is that other people, some drivers, were changing money at a preferential price and then they were selling them on the second market.

It is really sad to hear about because this sport was nearly dying some years ago and I worked very hard to recover it and put the sport in a very high position in Latin America. I really hope that this problem does not affect the youngest generation who really need their money to race and to be outside of Venezuela.

But the bigger picture remains as to whether or not the Venezuelan will be at Williams for 2014. The privateer outfit has suffered one of their worst seasons ever, a solitary point courtesy of Maldonado in Hungary all they have to show for their efforts.



 

Williams was expected to confirm the same driver line-up for next season but it has emerged on ESPNF1 that Felipe Massa, who shares manager Nicolas Todt with Maldonado, is now in talks with...
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