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GP2 drivers hit out at Carmen Jorda

Renault development driver Carmen Jorda has been on the receiving end of criticism from GP2 drivers this week.

Jorda was retained as part of the Renault driver set-up following its takeover of the Lotus team, where Sorensen was previously a test driver. The Danish driver claims Jorda was a full 12 seconds off his pace when both drove the Lotus simulator last year.

"She was 12 seconds slower than me in the simulator," Sorensen told Ekstra Bladet. "Still, she ran away with all the rewards.

"I have spent at least 60 days in the simulator in the past two years working on the development of the Formula 1 car, as Kevin Magnussen has done at McLaren. So I felt so violated that it finally became too much, so I just had to stop."

Jorda then responded on Twitter by saying: "12 seconds faster? I've been laughing at that for 12 hours!"

However, her response then drew further criticism from Richie Stanaway, who raced against Jorda in GP3 in 2014. "Stanaway responded to Jorda, saying: "If you didn't finish last in every GP3 race people would not make jokes. #simple"

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.