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Palmer clinging onto 2017 seat, despite pay out offer from Renault

Renault Sport Formula 1 Team driver Jolyon Palmer has reportedly been offered $3 million by the French team to exit his race seat early, in a bid to allow them the opportunity to bring in 2018 recruit Carlos Sainz Jr. as early as this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix. However, the Brit is believed to have turned that sum down, and is holding out for a bigger pay out, somewhere in the region of $7 million, if he is to move aside and allow Sainz Jr. to get behind the wheel of the RS17 for the remainder of the 2017 season. As it stands Palmer is all set to compete in Malaysia this weekend, as Renault’s preview quotes for the event make clear, whilst Sainz Jr. is content with seeing out...
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