Pastor Maldonado held his hands up to a pair of mistakes after a troubled day of practice in China - but the Venezuelan believes Lotus's improvements still mean he can go on to enjoy his strongest race of his season. Maldonado, who carries a five-place grid penalty into this Sunday's grand prix for flipping Esteban Gutierrez's Sauber in Bahrain, did little to dispel his reputation as one of the grid's more erratic drivers on Friday via incidents in each of the two practice sessions. The most damaging to both his session, and his Lotus car, occurred in Practice Two when Maldonado crashed as he was entering the pitlane. Approaching the left-hand kink in the entry road, the former Williams...
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