Pastor Maldonado Held a Live Chat Until it Crashed

Published 01/29/2019, 8:29 AM EST

When one normally hosts a live chat on social media, one thing that everyone has to combat is a poor internet connection. That sort of fate befell The F1 community’s favourite person to troll, Pastor Maldonado.

After leaving Formula One, the Venezuelan became a test driver for Pirelli. But for the 2019 season, he has joined the WEC grid. Maldonado is racing for the DragonSpeed team. The Venezuelan will drive DragonSpeed’s LMP2 ORECA-Gibson 07. He will be sharing driving duties with Champ Car driver Roberto Gonzalez.

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Ahead of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, he held a live chat on Instagram, but for some inexplicable reason, it crashed.

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Tried to join Maldonado’s Instagram live but it crashed 😔 pic.twitter.com/5V7qeBinG7
— WTF1 (@wtf1official) January 26, 2019

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At the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, the LMP2 category is led by the #81 DragonSpeed Oreca car of James Allen by a lap over the sister car of Pastor Maldonado.

Regarding the failed live chat, everyone has heard of crashing the internet and now, Maldonado can cross that off his list.

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Dhruv George is a senior Formula One and NASCAR analyst for EssentiallySports, having authored nearly 12000 articles spanning different sports like F1, NASCAR, Tennis, NFL, and eSports. He graduated with a PG Diploma in Journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications. Dhruv has also conducted interviews with F1 driver Pierre Gasly and Moto2 rider Tony Arbolino.