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Barcelona played into weaknesses of FW35

Pastor Maldonado finished 14th with Valtteri Bottas 16th in today’s Spanish Grand Prix. Williams opted to switch Pastor onto a four-stop strategy, because of the high tyre degradation, with Valtteri remaining on his planned three-stop. Mike Coughlan, Technical Director: 'We knew it would be a difficult race today but we can draw a slight positive from the three places Pastor gained from his grid position. We were suffering with high tyre degradation and so made the decision to switch Pastor onto a four-stop strategy. We committed to a three-stop with Valtteri, but we then lost a lot of time. We need to check the data as the degradation on his car was unusual compared to the pace we had on...
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