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Pastor Maldonado
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Venezuelan racing driver
Key facts
- Born
- Pastor Rafael Maldonado Motta , ( 1985-03-09 ) 9 March 1985 (age 41) , Maracay , Aragua , Venezuela
- Spouse
- Gabriela Tarkanyi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2012 )
- Family
- Manuel Maldonado (cousin)
- Nationality
- Venezuelan
- Active years
- 2011 – 2015
- Teams
- Williams , Lotus
- Entries
- 96 (95 starts)
- First entry
- 2011 Australian Grand Prix
- First win
- 2012 Spanish Grand Prix
- Last entry
- 2015 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
- Categorisation
- FIA Platinum
- Years active
- 2018–19
- Best season finish in the championship s
- 3rd in 2018–19 ( LMP2 )
- Participating years span years
- 2018 – 2019
- Best finish
- 9th ( 2018 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rafael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Venezuela
- Place of birth
- Maracay
- Participant in
- 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Sport
- auto racing
- Member of team
- Lotus F1
- Country for sport
- Venezuela
- Image
- Pastor Maldonado 2015 Malaysia.jpg
- Significant event
- 2012 Spanish Grand Prix
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- Pastor Maldonado
- date of birth
- 1985-03-09
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- Pastor Maldonado
- sport number
- 13
- social media followers
- 705870
- points for
- 76
- number of wins
- 1
- pole positions
- 1
- podium finishes
- 1
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 96
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Encyclopedic overview
Pastor Rafael Maldonado Motta ( Spanish pronunciation: [pasˈtoɾ maldoˈnaðo]; born 9 March 1985) is a Venezuelan former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 2011 to 2015. Maldonado won the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix with Williams.
After winning the GP2 Series in 2010 with Rapax, Maldonado competed in Formula One for Williams and Lotus, winning the Spanish Grand Prix in 2012 with the former. He was replaced by Kevin Magnussen at the reformed Renault team for 2016, becoming a test driver for Pirelli. Maldonado returned to racing in 2018 at the FIA World Endurance Championship, finishing third in the LMP2 class with DragonSpeed before taking a class win at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pastor Maldonado” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.