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Palmer was "like a different guy" at Spa - Renault

Renault Formula 1 driver Jolyon Palmer was “like a different guy” during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, reckons the team’s trackside operations director Alan Permane. Palmer showed his strongest form of a difficult season so far at Spa, outpacing teammate Nico Hulkenberg in practice and qualifying before suffering a suspected loss of gearbox oil pressure after he'd reached Q3. That sparked a gearbox change and a grid penalty that meant Palmer started 14th on the grid, and he could only finish 13th in the race - having had to start on used ultrasofts and suffering a clash with Fernando Alonso that he likened to his teammate’s tussle with Kevin Magnussen in Hungary. Permane told...
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