Nico Hulkenberg is still the big player at the tail-end of the 2014 driver 'silly season'. Actually, as recently as Sunday in the Austin paddock, most insiders now expected that Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado's PDVSA millions had resulted in a done deal for the most competitive race seat still vacant on next year's grid. That might be why Maldonado suddenly toned down his astonishing attack on Williams, including suspicions of sabotage, on Sunday -- perhaps he was told behaviour like that is not welcome at Lotus, even despite his PDVSA power. "In the good times we were together, and also the bad times," he said, referring to Williams as his "family". Maldonado also had a...
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