Monaco GP: Maldonado receives further five grid penalty

Williams F1 driver Pastor Maldonado was set to start the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix from nineteenth n the grid after receiving a ten place grid penalty. Now he is having to deal with the fact that the team has been forced to carry-out a gearbox change on his car seeing him incur a further five grid place penalty.

Pastor would crash in the last practice session and there was a strong possibility that his gearbox suffered damaged that was not first assessed when the car was repaired.

Chief operations engineer Mark Gillan said: "The car had a lot of damage in it, to the point where we are having to change the gearbox in it as well.

"There was a significant amount of damage to the car, so the guys did a really good job to even get it out for qualifying."

Gillan spoke of his disappointment in seeing such a result after qualifying, especially when in the race last Pastor had started from the front. IN Monaco he will start from last.

"I've no doubt we could have done P4 or P5, with a decent clean run, or maybe even higher. But Pastor did not match his Q2 time and his time in Q3 was set with old super soft tyres, so there was definitely quite a bit more to be had.

"It's disappointing. But it is still good that we are disappointed because the pace is definitely there."