Jolyon Palmer

Formula 1 driver

Vital statistics for Jolyon Palmer
Nationality	GBR
Birthplace	Horsham,England
Born	20 January 1991
Age	32
F1 debut	Australian Grand Prix, 2016
Driver number	30
Current team	Renault Sport F1 Team

Palmer's GP2 championship victory in 2014 put him front and centre for F1 drives in the future, particularly given the backing of his father Jonathan - former racer and UK circuit owner. After a brief test with Force India, Jolyon was confirmed as the reserve driver for the Lotus team for the 2015 season, and after the departure of Romain Grosjean, he was promoted to a race seat for 2016 and 2017.

F1 biography

Jolyon Palmer had an early taste of the world of motorsport with father Jonathan Palmer racking up an impressive career of racing, broadcasting, circuit owning, and running several motorsport championships. Jolyon was quickly into kart racing, moving up to UK T-Cars, Formula Palmer Audi (created by his father), Formula Two, and then GP2.

Palmer impressed straight away in GP2, finishing in the top ten for his first race. He plugged away for four years before winning the championship in 2014 with several races to go before the end of the season. On the basis of his success, he was given a drive at the final two day Formula One test for the Force India team.

Following a successful test, Jolyon confirmed he was aiming for a full time race drive. Ahead of the 2015 season he was signed to the Lotus team as reserve driver for the season, making his debut in the Barcelona pre-season testing. When Romain Grosjean departed for the new Haas F1 team, Lotus signed Jolyon to the race team to make his official F1 debut in 2016.

It was a topsy turvy year for the Brit, but he started to make progress towards the end of the season and finished a highlight tenth place in Malaysia, picking up his first points of the year. He earned a second year with the squad for 2017.

Filed under Formula 1 drivers

Date	Title
04/10/2017	Race information - Japan 2017
27/09/2017	Race information - Malaysia 2017
13/09/2017	Race information - Singapore 2017
30/08/2017	Race information - Italy 2017
23/08/2017	Race information - Belgium 2017
27/07/2017	Race information - Hungary 2017
13/07/2017	Race information - Britain 2017
05/07/2017	Race information - Austria 2017
01/07/2017	Finding the next British F1 star
25/06/2017	F1 Debrief - Prodding a bear with a stick

Date	Title
18/09/2017	Sainz shines on a starry night
11/07/2017	Grosjean catches a brake break
15/05/2017	Wehrlein continues his return to form
01/05/2017	Squeaky Bottas time
11/03/2017	Put to the test
20/06/2016	Pérez does it again

Related news

Date	Title
04/11/2017	Felipe Massa confirms second retirement from Formula One
07/10/2017	Palmer leaves Renault, making way for Sainz to join the team
18/09/2017	Hamilton wins in Singapore as first lap chaos takes out three cars
15/09/2017	Carlos Sainz to join Renault for one year in 2018
26/08/2017	Hamilton equals pole positions record at Spa
29/07/2017	Sebastian Vettel scoops Hungarian pole position in Ferrari 1-2
28/07/2017	Daniel Ricciardo leads Friday practice at the Hungaroring
08/07/2017	Bottas takes pole as Hamilton gets five place penalty
24/06/2017	Hamilton grabs pole in Azerbaijan as Ricciardo crashes
23/06/2017	Verstappen goes fastest, and crashes, in Baku practice

Date	Title
29/05/2017	I find your lack of pace disturbing

Mentions during live coverage

Date	Update
22/10/2017	We've got some new and returning faces in the paddock this weekend, with driver movements taking place just a few races before the end of the year. Carlos Sainz has switched to Renault, Jolyon Palmer has left. Daniil Kvyat has returned to Toro Rosso, partnering Brendon Hartley who makes his F1 debut.Gasly, who was previously driving the Toro Rosso, ducked out of this weekend to take part in another series (which was unfortunately cancelled after all that!).
17/09/2017	Jolyon Palmer is sitting sixth at the moment - if he can get to the end, this will be his first points this season.
17/09/2017	With those pit stops, we've got Jolyon Palmer running in second place. That won't last long.
17/09/2017	Jolyon Palmer gets a good restart, making the most of his full wet tyres to sweep past Valtteri Bottas for fifth place. The Mercedes is on the intermediates.
17/09/2017	In fact, the only person on the grid who may be feeling less than motivated at the moment is Jolyon Palmer, who is facing unemployment at the end of this season, if not before.
03/09/2017	Team radio to Jolyon Palmer: "Jo, we need to box the car, to retire."
03/09/2017	5 second time penalty for Jolyon Palmer - leaving the track and gaining an advantage.
03/09/2017	Both Sauber drivers have dropped back significantly, and Jolyon Palmer is running last.
03/09/2017	It's also worth mentioning that Fernando Alonso's luck with engines continued into the parade lap - his car broke down so he had to hitch a lift with Jolyon Palmer!
03/09/2017	The trouble that we have now is that almost no one starts where they qualified. There are an incredible amount of power unit and gearbox related shifts to mix things up. We knew the Red Bull drivers were going to take grid drops but below is the current list of drivers with penalties: Carlos Sainz - 10 places Fernando Alonso - 35 places Daniel Ricciardo - 25 places Max Verstappen - 20 places Nico Hülkenberg - 10 places Jolyon Palmer - 15 places Stoffel Vandoorne - 25 places Sergio Pérez - 5 places Romain Grosjean - 5 places

Rankings gains and losses

Date	Reason	Points
29/08/2017	Mad props for taking time off in the summer break to only go and climb a mountain!	+3
20/08/2017	Loving how competitive he is in the Renault version of Grill the Grid, and that he's considered the history nerd of the team.	+2
04/07/2017	Love it when the drivers get into their tennis.	+1
23/06/2017	Being quite mean to the lovely Jennie Gow, just because he's fed up of answering questions.	-3
31/05/2017	Solid effort from Palmer to try out a French review of his day.	+2
11/05/2017	Not sure if this is more of a grumpy face or curious face but I like it anyway.	+1
18/04/2017	Nice bit of team building from Jolyon here, with his engineers running the track.	+1
01/12/2016	Incredible performance on his Grill the Grid, such knowledge!	+4
01/12/2016	Indulging in a pretty lengthy Twitter Q&A, no doubt celebrating having some time off post-season!	+1
08/11/2016	Taking part in this horrible promo that does nothing to endear motorsport to more women.	-20