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Palmer secures Lotus race seat for 2016

Jolyon Palmer will partner Pastor Maldonado at the Lotus Formula 1 team next season, the Enstone-based team announced on Friday. The Briton, the GP2 champion in 2014, joined the team as its reserve driver for this year, running in Friday practice in several grands prix. Palmer will take the seat left vacant by Romain Grosjean, who will race with the Haas F1 team next season. The 24-year-old Briton, the son of former F1 driver Jonathan, made his debut at the wheel of F1 machinery last year, when he tested for the Force India team. He secured the GP2 crown in 2014 with DAMS, beating this year's champion and McLaren protege Stoffel Vandoorne to the title. "It feels pretty unbelievable!...
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