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Palmer: Maldonado is not a bad driver

Formula 1 rookie Jolyon Palmer says he is happy to be teamed with Kevin Magnussen for his first full season at the pinnacle of the sport. Actually, the 2014 GP2 champion was scheduled to be paired with Pastor Maldonado, but the controversial Venezuelan has been ousted by Renault at the last minute over a sponsorship problem. Recently, former F1 driver Mark Webber singled out Maldonado as the worst driver in F1. 'He's not a bad driver,' Palmer told the Guardian newspaper. 'He won GP2 and he won a grand prix, remember. Throughout last season he ran Romain Grosjean close a lot of the time.' 'It was just that he made mistakes at important moments. That's where Romain (Grosjean) had the...
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