{"id":19964,"date":"2013-11-20T07:14:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19964"},"modified":"2013-11-20T07:14:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:14:54","slug":"maldonado-admits-williams-sabotage-claims-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/maldonado-admits-williams-sabotage-claims-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldonado admits Williams sabotage claims ‘wrong’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor Maldonado has admitted it was “wrong” to publicly accuse Williams of sabotage.<\/p>\n

\"Pastor-Maldonado-3\"After a poor qualifying in Austin – the first race since the Venezuelan’s decision to leave the Grove based team was announced – Maldonado said he suspected mechanics had tampered with his tyre pressures and temperatures.<\/p>\n

“Sure, it was wrong of me to say it,” he is quoted by Speed Week, “because for three years I respected them, and they respected me.<\/p>\n

“I was stressed on the first weekend after the announcement that I am leaving the team,” explained Maldonado, who has been linked with a move to Lotus.<\/p>\n

“You come to the end of the season and you are stressed, but only because I want more and I want to give 100 per cent, but I’m limited by the car.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes you say more than you should,” he added.<\/p>\n

He insisted he has “a few very good friends” at Williams, who are “perhaps the only friends I have in formula one, and together we had maybe the best time of my career, but perhaps the worst.<\/p>\n

“It was not easy for me to leave the team because I have very good friends here,” Maldonado continued.<\/p>\n

“There are certainly people who I do not like and maybe they don’t like me too.\u00a0 This is a family, and there can always be differences.<\/p>\n

“Now it’s too late and I’m leaving, but I wish them the best,” he added.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor Maldonado has admitted it was “wrong” to publicly accuse Williams of sabotage. After a poor qualifying in Austin – the first race since the Venezuelan’s decision to leave the Grove based team was announced – Maldonado said he suspected mechanics had tampered with his tyre pressures and temperatures. “Sure, it was wrong of me …<\/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":[128,5262,5340,306,1842,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19964"}],"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=19964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19965,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19964\/revisions\/19965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}