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Maldonado: It was a bolt from the blue
Pastor Maldonado has for the first time revealed how his eleventh-hour ousting from Renault hit him like 'a bolt from the blue'. The Venezuelan, replaced for 2016 by former McLaren driver Kevin Magnussen, confirmed that his F1 adventure came to an end due to problems with his PDVSA sponsorship. 'The situation changed dramatically within a few hours and I found myself without a sponsor, and everything else came from that,' Maldonado told Autosprint. 'I don't feel anger but I feel anything but happy. It was a bolt from the blue.' Maldonado's annual backing by PDVSA, the crisis-struck Venezuelan state-owned oil company, was estimated at about $50 million a year. As to what went wrong, the...
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