After an odd weekend for Renault Sport Formula 1 Team‘s Jolyon Palmer, which included finding out he'd lost his seat next year via the Internet, the Brit scored his highest points finish to date at today's Singapore Grand Prix. It was announced on Friday that Scuderia Toro Rosso‘s Carlos Sainz Jr. will be joining the Renault team next season, at present leaving Palmer without a seat. If anything, this only seemed to spur Palmer on, in what is arguably his strongest performance to date. Palmer finished the race in sixth, having run as high as second at one point, albeit without having pitted. He, like many of the other drivers, benefitted from the high attrition rate in the...
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