But he has a level of maturity that is higher and that is quite encouraging." On his few couple of days at Valencia we looked at his data compared to Rubens, we could see he has a natural talent." And added, "Pastor is a rookie, he will make a few mistakes and he will have a few crashes, every rookie does. Juncadella was a Friday regular for the team now known as Aston Martin in 2014, but preferred the purity of the normally-aspirated 2013-spec machines.About new Williams diver 25-year old Maldonado Michael was very positive, "Pastor has come along as a rookie, but I must say the job he has done during testing we have had so far has been very good. Friday favourite: The "honest" Renault F1 ace most admired by Warwick.Friday favourite: The American Spa that became a happy hunting ground.Friday favourite: The sonorous BMW that launched a GT racing star.But by the time his manager was informed by Claire Williams, Juncadella had already committed to Force India - having been led to believe that his sponsorship package couldn’t match that of eventual Williams pick, Felipe Nasr. Juncadella believes he was the team’s first pick to be its reserve driver in 2014, with Felipe Massa already signed up to partner Valtteri Bottas. I had a great time and the atmosphere was amazing.” I liked working with the team, the engineers were great. We had some glitches on the first day and we couldn’t really go through our programme, but it was really good. “I really enjoyed it, I felt at home and they even wanted to give me half a day on the second day. Photo by: Andrew Ferraro / Motorsport ImagesĪlthough it didn’t exactly please Toto Wolff and the Mercedes hierarchy - “he was not super-happy when I did the test with Williams at that time because of the Renault engine, but it was not a big story” - Juncadella impressed the Williams engineers, outpacing regular driver Pastor Maldonado. Williams had Renault engines when Mercedes protege Juncadella tested, which caused some friction It was my only opportunity to get some mileage in the F1 car.” We found some space in the Williams F1 car for the season and in return we could do the young driver test. “I had my big sponsor from F3, Astana, that had some budget for me for that season to do GP2 - but I didn’t do GP2 in the end so we had some budget that we could use. “I was already in DTM with Mercedes as a contracted driver, but I was still aiming to have a shot at F1 and I was testing for Mercedes F1 in the simulator,” explains Juncadella, who since that 2013 DTM rookie season has represented the marque across multiple series including GT World Challenge Europe, IMSA and the Nurburgring 24 Hours.
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