For a moment it looked as though Pastor Maldonado might just have done enough to sneak through into Q3 during qualifying in Shanghai for the 2013 F1 Chinese Grand Prix: when he crossed the line at the end of his flying lap he was in tenth place and still in with a chance of progressing. Unfortunately a flurry of even faster laps by the cars behind him competing their own qualifying runs doomed the Williams driver to 15th spot on the timesheets, and very much on the outside looking in for the remainder of the session."I got everything I could out of the car today," said a disconsolate Maldonado in pit lane afterwards. "I was hoping for a better result but we couldn't quite...
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