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Maldonado: Renault F1 exit was a bolt from the blue
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Pastor Maldonado has described his forced departure from Renault as “a bolt from the blue”, saying the situation deteriorated within a few hours. The Venezuelan initially had a contract for 2016, having signed an extension with Lotus last year. But when sponsorship money from state-owned oil company PDVSA dried up in the wake of economic turmoil in Maldonado’s home country, Renault moved swiftly to replace the 30-year-old with Kevin Magnussen. “The situation changed radically within a few hours and I found myself without a sponsor, and everything else came from that,” he told Italian publication Autosprint. “I am not angry not negative but I feel anything...
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