LATEST WIN: MALDONADO

FEW OF WILLIAMS’ SIGNINGS HAVE BEEN quite as controversial as Pastor Maldonado. The Venezuelan, widely derided as a chequebook driver, showed undoubted pace during his time in F1, but also continued his dubious reputation for calamity in lower series with a string of incidents, collisions, penalties and fines. All of that was briefly forgotten at the Spanish Grand Prix in 2012, where Maldonado showed his other face: that of someone with the pace and resolve to put the car on pole and lead from lights to flag. In the process he fended off Fernando Alonso, took his only F1 race win, and broke an eight-year Williams drought since Juan-Pablo Montoya’s victory at the Brazilian Grand Prix in 2004. The team hasn’t won since, but Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas have managed to score several podiums in recent years.