🇬🇧 Jolyon Palmer

Jolyon Palmer is an established professional who raced in Formula 1 and the GP2 Series as a solo driver in single-class championships. He spent two seasons with Renault in Formula 1 from 2016 to 2017, totalling 37 starts. His primary racing came across four seasons in GP2 from 2011 to 2014, where he scored 69 starts for DAMS and won the 2014 championship.[1]

Palmer took seven wins and eighteen podiums across both series combined. His GP2 championship season in 2014 yielded four wins and twelve podiums from twenty-one rounds. In Formula 1 he was outpaced; his two years at Renault produced no podiums and no points finishes of note. He was FIA Platinum graded, the highest professional categorisation in endurance racing.[2]

Palmer shared the GP2 grid with drivers who would go on to establish themselves in Formula 1 and beyond. He beat Pascal Wehrlein, who later won the Formula E championship, on fourteen occasions; he also finished ahead of Pierre Gasly, the 2016 GP2 champion and long-term Formula 1 regular, five times. His regular rivals in GP2 were Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr, both of whom matched him closely and both went on to compete in Formula 1; Nasr later won multiple IMSA endurance titles. Palmer has since become a television pundit and analyst for the BBC, Channel 4 and F1TV.