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Pastor Maldonado confirms Renault departure

Pastor Maldonado has confirmed that after two years with the Lotus F1 Team, he will be leaving the Enstone-based outfit, now officially the Renault works team, ahead of the Formula 1 2016 season. The Venezuelan driver has ongoing sponsorship problems with the state-owned oil company PDVSA, with late payments from the sponsor to Renault, and this caused team officials to head to Venezuela to try and solve the problem. Former McLaren F1 Team race and reserve driver Kevin Magnussen is tipped to be Maldonado's replacement. In a statement posted on his official Twitter, Maldonado said, 'Today with the biggest humility I inform you that I won't be on the grid at the start of the 2016 season....
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