Williams rage after Maldonado claims 'sabotage'

[YahooNews]

Deputy team chief Claire Williams on Saturday rejected all insinuations of sabotage made by want-away driver Pastor Maldonado against the British Formula One team. Venezuelan Maldonado had suggested his poor performance in qualifying at the United States Grand Prix was the result of "dirty tricks" including altering tyre pressures and temperatures. In Saturdayâ s qualifying session, Maldonado failed to make progress beyond Q1 while team-mate Valtteri Bottas reached the top ten shootout and qualified ninth, nine places ahead of him. Two days earlier, in a pre-race media news briefing, a prickly Maldonado told reporters: â I think I delivered more to the team than they did for me."