Maldonado's race hampered by damage

By Andrew Hooper
July 23 2012

Williams F1 driver Pastor Maldonado would finish the 2012 German GP in fifteenth after having run over debris on the track that damaged his car and affected his race pace.

 
 Maldonado's race hampered by damage
 
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The opening stages of the 2012 German Grand Prix would see Williams F1 driver Pastor Maldonado run competitively near the front of the field but after running over debris on the track his performance would suffer greatly seeing him finish in fifteenth.

Williams Chief Operations Engineer Mark Gillan spoke of the damage that Pastor's car received saying that it occurred on lap twelve when Pastor over a piece of carbon fibre that damaged the left hand side of his car. Pastor was running in sixth when the damage occurred and after that pace suffered.

In an interview for Autosport Gillan said: "It is obviously very disappointing today with Pastor, he was going quite well at the beginning and he went over some debris on lap 12 and it has quite badly damaged his car. He has quite a big loss, the car is so sensitive to it and almost immediately we lost the grip and never got it back.'

"He picked up a little bit of carbon that was lying in the middle of the track and it must have disintegrated as he ran over it so it must have been big enough to damage quite a few of our aero bits on the left hand side of the car," he added.

"Pastor was pushing hard and looking to finish pretty much where he was and there was no reason why he couldn't. He was confident in the car and our long-run pace was pretty good."
 

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