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Maldonado "turned down" F1 race seat for 2017
Pastor Maldonado says he turned down the opportunity to return to Formula 1 this season because the seat offered to him wasn't competitive. The Venezuelan was replaced by Kevin Magnussen at Renault ahead of the 2016 season, but had talks with a number of teams about a return this year and had his hopes raised when Nico Rosberg quit Mercedes. But Maldonado says declined an offer to return and could not find an alternative that appealed. "I have the experience and I had opportunities to come back here this year [in a race seat]," he told Motorsport.com. "I was quite close to coming back but I decided not to. But if I don't have any good feeling, if I don't have any guarantees...
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