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F1 Beyond The Grid

30 Days of BTG – Day 13: Pastor Maldonado’s moment of history

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

He’s Williams' most recent F1 winner. In 2012, Pastor Maldonado took an historic, epic F1 P1. The Venezuelan vividly relived his victory on BTG in 2019. Tom Clarkson is steering you through the huge BTG archive in the build-up to our new series on March 1st. Follow, rate and review the podcast and join us for 30 Days of BTG.

‘Sometimes I went over the limit. No more than others, but my mistakes were always on the front page’. Hear the full conversation with Pastor Maldonado here 

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Hello and welcome to F1 Beyond the Grid with me Tom Clarkson.

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It's day 13 of our pre-season series and today's archive highlight comes from a driver who chose

0:44.5

supposedly unlucky number 13 as his race number, Venezuela's Pastor Maldonardo.

0:50.9

The 2012 Spanish Grand Prix was passed as day of days. He qualified second but was

0:56.3

promoted to pole position when Lewis Hamilton was penalized. That meant he'd be fighting for the

1:01.9

win with Fernando Alonzo who was driving a faster Ferrari. The majority of the 80,000 fans at

1:08.2

the track in Barcelona wanted a home victory but passed a new that he could win.

1:13.4

Come on. You know, this is a good chance for my career. Everyone was telling me, okay,

1:19.5

let's go for the podium. I had my wife, I had my family, my father was there.

1:25.3

Everyone was telling me, okay, good job. Tomorrow the podium is possible so just let's get the podium.

1:32.6

It's very important for the team also. The team was looking after the podium of course because they

1:37.6

had like seven years without any victory at the time but when I went to the bed I said to myself,

1:45.8

this is my time. I just need to do what I did in the previous categories. Just go for the

1:51.2

victory. That was not my first time leading a race. That was not my first time making a pole

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