Pastor Maldonado will incur a ten-place grid penalty this weekend at Suzuka after his Lotus F1 Team were forced to switch to their sixth Renault engine of the season. He is the second driver this year to take this penalty, after Daniil Kvyat was forced to change the Renault engine in his Toro Rosso back at Monza. The spate of problems earlier in the season have come to haunt the Lotus team, and if Maldonado fails to qualify inside the top twelve on Saturday, the remainder of the penalty will be carried over to next weekend’s inaugural Russian Grand Prix at Sochi. Despite the penalty, Maldonado was happy with his day despite only finishing seventeenth in the first free practice session...
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