{"id":19632,"date":"2013-10-21T07:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19632"},"modified":"2013-10-21T07:02:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T11:02:02","slug":"maldonado-denies-f1-future-clouded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/maldonado-denies-f1-future-clouded\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldonado denies F1 future clouded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Maldonado has hit back at rumours suggesting his future in formula one is clouded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Pastor-Maldonado-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Pastor-Maldonado-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The rumours late last week said the Venezuelan&#8217;s management had been in complex talks with Williams, apparently because a move to Lotus might be on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Maldonado, however, is strongly backed by the state-owned oil company PDVSA, who are under contract to Williams for the next two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>But the latest news from Caracus is that government officials have frozen payments to Venezuelan car and motorcycle racers as they investigate a corruption scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the PDVSA-backed Indycar driver EJ Viso missed the Fontana finale at the weekend, but he Tweeted a photo from his hospital bed to prove he was in fact &#8220;ill&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Maldonado, meanwhile, wrote on Twitter on Sunday: &#8220;I will be in F1 next season proudly representing Venezuela.\u00a0 Hopefully good news soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also denied suggestions of a growing rift between himself and Williams, who have struggled for competitiveness in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a good relationship (between) driver and team, we have been working day and night to improve our performance and results,&#8221; said Maldonado.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Maldonado has hit back at rumours suggesting his future in formula one is clouded. The rumours late last week said the Venezuelan&#8217;s management had been in complex talks with Williams, apparently because a move to Lotus might be on the cards. Maldonado, however, is strongly backed by the state-owned oil company PDVSA, who are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,1842,1844,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19633,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19632\/revisions\/19633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}