Pastor Maldonado has further backtracked on his claims that the Williams team had sabotaged his qualifying efforts at the United States Grand Prix, admitting that the heat of the moment may have got to him.The Venezuelan exited in the first phase of qualifying at the Circuit of the Americas, and promptly suggested during a television interview that 'somebody is playing with the pressure and the temperatures' of the tyres on his FW35. Williams quickly refuted the claims, saying that it had never treated a driver that way in its lengthy existence, and Maldonado – who had already announced his split from the team for 2014 – has been on the defensive ever since.An initial playing down of...
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