Tag Archives: Maldonado

Lotus, the lowest team with a podium finish and the only team that for 2016 have an entirely new driver partnership making this comparison fairly useless.

Perhaps the most exciting part of the weekend, apart from Max Verstappen going wheel-to-wheel with Pastor Maldonado at Monaco, was the decision by Mercedes to pit Lewis Hamilton under the safety car. Or maybe it was the social media reaction afterwards. One of the main criticisms of race winner Nico Rosberg was the fact he had the audacity to celebrate …

Reputations are everything in Formula One. Away from the sport, it takes ages to build a reputation and seconds to damage it. In Formula One, it takes a second to build a reputation. Yet it is almost impossible to shake it off. Ask Pastor Maldonado. When the Venezuelan entered the sport in 2011, he already had a reputation for being …

Number two in the teammate head to heads, with the Toro Rosso and Williams drivers. Some more stats to give this time as they have all scored points and made it into Q2 or Q3.

Something I thought about earlier on in the day, does Bottas replacing Senna in FP1 have any effect on Senna's qualifying performance? Could Williams have many more points if Senna was given more FP1 time?

So who deserves the title? Alonso? Vettel? Karthikeyan? Or just whoever finishes with the most points. There are two races left, fifty points up for grabs and just two drivers able to win. Four drivers have been leading the Drivers' Championship at some point in the season, Alonso has led for 10 races, Vettel for 5, Hamilton for 2 and Jenson Button just 1.