Venezuelan Formula One driver Pastor Maldonado has blamed a surge of stress and pent-up emotion for the harsh and accusatory words he levelled at his Williams team over the US Grand Prix weekend in Austin. Maldonado had suggested Williams might have sabotaged his car in Saturday qualifying as an explanation for why Finnish rookie teammate Valtteri Bottas had performed so much better than him. Bottas qualified ninth, and finished eighth for his first points in F1, while the Venezuelan started 18th and failed to score in the race. "Sometimes you get too stressed, and sometimes you value only the moment, but there is always something behind it and after three years you explode,"...
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