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‘Williams made wrong call turning to pay drivers'
What do Pastor Maldonado, Bruno Senna, Lance Stroll, Sergey Sirotkin, Robert Kubica and Nicholas Latifi have in common? All six are former Williams drivers, and all six paid for those seats. But perhaps not as dearly as Williams ultimately did, says Rubens Barrichello. Since Maldonado joined Williams in 2011, the team has – except for two years – finished fifth or lower in the Constructors' Championship. The two years the team managed better was when Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas, two drivers who could never be called pay drivers, were in the cockpit. The team's move towards pay drivers has been, at least according to Barrichello, the catalyst for Williams' decline. And...
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