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Grid drop for Maldonado

Pastor Maldonado, whose maiden season at Lotus has been beset by problems, suffered another setback at Suzuka on Friday when he became the second driver to pick up a ten-place grid penalty for the use of a sixth turbo engine in 2014.The Venezuelan was one of seven drivers who went into this weekend's Japanese GP having reached their limit of five penalty-free internal combustion engines for the season, with mandatory ten-place grid drops imposed when a sixth is pressed into service. Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat became the first to fall foul of the rule at the Italian GP last month.Fellow Renault customer Lotus were forced to install a fresh power plant in Maldonado's E22 for the start of...
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