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Palmer wanted team orders from Renault
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Jolyon Palmer believes Renault should have dispatched a team order over the radio to Kevin Magnussen, asking the Dane to let his team mate past. As a result of similar tyre strategies, Palmer spent over half the race right on the back of Magnussen, and was hoping the Renault pit-wall would help his cause at some point. "Well yeah, basically, I want to be able to pass, but I spent, I don't know, 30 laps tucked up right behind him," Palmer said. "I knew I was a lot quicker, and I could see that [with] the guys in front I could really make some inroads. "But I couldn't follow him [Magnussen] close enough, I felt that if I got in front I could have...
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