Pastor Maldonado took his first and only Formula 1 race victory at the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix – and it wasn't even the most important thing he did that day.
The Venezuelan racer had come under intense criticism for a poor debut season in the sport. He scored just one point in that first year and was dismissed by many as being little more than a pay driver.
Safe to say he silenced those critics over the Barcelona race weekend 11 years ago. The season famously began with the first seven races of the year being won by different drivers and Maldonado was the fifth in that sequence.
