Williams' Valtteri Bottas qualified ninth with Pastor Maldonado 18th for tomorrow's United States Grand Prix. After the session, Maldonado accused Williams of not probably setting up his car, something the team itself later firmly denied. Xevi Pujolar, Chief Race Engineer: 'The Circuit of the Americas is quite unique in terms of track layout, roughness and temperature which, mixed with the fact that the tyre compound choices are on the conservative side, makes getting the tyres working well the key to a good qualifying lap. We had better performance in FP1 and were working to bring this back in practice this morning. We had both cars on similar configurations targeting the same optimum...
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