Lotus: Maldonado will come good

Pastor Maldonado will have a fine second half of the 2015 season, according to Lotus operations director Alan Permane.

The Venezuelan has impressed in flashes this season, but once again his campaign has been littered with silly driver errors, including a needless crash with Sergio Pérez in Hungary.

Permane told AUTOSPORT: "Pastor's had two very strong races this season and has been quick in all the other ones. I'm expecting great things from him in the second half of the season.

"All the races that he's done, he's been strong. In Bahrain, he started almost from the back because we had a problem in qualifying with the brake system, and he would've finished seventh with a three-stop strategy from the back, but he made an error there.

"And in China he made a silly error coming into the pitlane. But they're all errors made by him trying too hard, if you like. "It's not a lack of concentration, he's trying to gain the last hundredth of a second."

Maldonado has proven that when he has a clean weekend he can compete with team-mate Romain Grosjean, but he trails him by 11 points in the table.

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