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Jolyon Palmer hits out at top teams for spoiling Q1 for backmarkers

Renault's Jolyon Palmer has hit out at top teams such as Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull, for sometimes spoiling qualifying for the smaller outfits that struggle to escape the first session. Palmer used a recent example with Lewis Hamilton in Baku to get his point across, claiming the Briton didn't need to push so hard on his Q1 lap which saw him make an error and run wide at Turn 15, bringing out yellow flags and spoiling other driver's laps, because Mercedes have the pace to get through to Q2 with ease. 'It's just frustrating, because he's clearly got the pace to get through Q1 and yet he's still causing yellow flags for us when we're trying to do our best...
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