🇬🇧 Jolyon Palmer

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Racing driver from United Kingdom. Formula 1, Renault.

Driver facts

Full name

Jolyon Palmer

Born

20 January 1991(b. 1991)

Nationality

United Kingdom

Current team

Renault

Series

Formula 1

Status

Retired

Career wins

Career podiums

Career starts

Career DNFs

Racer Rating

6,360

Source · Wikimedia Commons

Racer Rating

6,360

RANK 47 / 12,285 INDEXED · +0 SEASON

FIA Categorisation

Platinum

DRIVER CATEGORISATION · FIA
SOURCE · FIA.COM

SYNTHESIZED FROM 2 SOURCES · UPDATED 7H AGO

Jolyon Carlyle Palmer is a British former racing driver who progressed through the junior single-seater ranks before reaching Formula 1, competing for Renault. His time in the sport ran through the mid-2010s, after which he stepped away from full-time competition. Since leaving the cockpit, Palmer has built a second career as a broadcaster and journalist, working as a pundit for outlets including the BBC, Channel 4 and F1TV, drawing on his firsthand experience of the championship.[1]

Across his Formula 1 career, Palmer made 37 starts for Renault without recording a win or a podium finish, and his tenure closed with zero championship titles. Racer DB lists his current Racer Rating at 6,360, placing him 111th among active drivers on the database's Elo-style scale, where the leading figures in the sport sit between roughly 10,000 and 11,500. The record also shows a 2026 season entry of 16 rounds, in which Palmer registered no wins and no podiums, finishing 17th in the standings. His overall status in Racer DB is listed as retired.[2]

SOURCES: [1] INDEXED RACE CLASSIFICATIONS[2] Wikipedia

SYNTHESIZED FROM 1 SOURCE · UPDATED 0H AGO

Jolyon Palmer is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Formula 1 for Renault. Palmer has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 37 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,360 ranks Palmer 47th of 12,285 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

SOURCES: [1] INDEXED RACE CLASSIFICATIONS

2017 form

LAST 20 RACES · FINISH POSITION, HIGHER IS BETTER

RACERDB · REFERENCE FOR EVERY RACING SERIESAGGREGATED FROM 1 SOURCES · SYNCED 1H AGO

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Podiums	DNFs	Poles	Points	Pos	Gain/Loss	Rating
2017	Formula 1	Renault	16	0	0	5	0	8	P17	−44	6,360
2016	Formula 1	Renault	21	0	0	6	0	1	P18	−596	6,404

Head-to-head

MOST-RACED RIVALS · TIMES PALMER FINISHED AHEAD VS BEHIND

Rival	Rating	Raced	Ahead	Behind	Record
🇲🇽 Sergio Pérez	6,538	26	4	22	15%
🇦🇺 Daniel Ricciardo	6,606	25	0	25	0%
🇬🇧 Lewis Hamilton	7,848	24	0	24	0%
🇧🇷 Felipe Massa	7,079	23	5	18	22%
🇫🇮 Valtteri Bottas	5,676	23	1	22	4%
🇨🇭 Romain Grosjean	4,689	22	3	19	14%
🇩🇪 Sebastian Vettel	7,017	21	0	21	0%
🇫🇮 Kimi Raikkonen	6,224	21	0	21	0%
🇩🇪 Pascal Wehrlein	6,624	20	14	6	70%
🇩🇰 Kevin Magnussen	5,433	20	9	11	45%

WHEEL-TO-WHEEL ONLY · SAME CLASS, DIFFERENT CAR · TEAM-MATES EXCLUDED

SYNTHESIZED FROM 2 SOURCES · UPDATED 7H AGO

SOURCES: [1] INDEXED RACE CLASSIFICATIONS[2] Wikipedia