Jolyon Palmer: "Everything has conspired against me"

  • Published on 25 Mar 2017 10:26
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  • By: Fergal Walsh

Jolyon Palmer has been left in a sour mood after qualifying in Melbourne after the Briton qualified last on the grid, feeling as though everything has conspired against him.

Palmer has been hitting issues all weekend long and as he started his fastest lap in Q1, he suffered a fuel surge which left him four seconds off the pace and at the back of the field.

"Yesterday I was feeling really strong. I was really happy even straight out of FP1, I was saying this is great, we've got grip, this is good," Palmer said. 

"But today, from the word go I've not been happy and just overall grip. I'm really struggling everywhere. Braking, balance and exit, I'm off. And from FP3, it carried into qualifying. Compared to yesterday, that car was feeling much worse." 

"Obviously I've had tough weekends before, but this one's strange," Palmer said. "Firstly, everything has conspired against me. I made my own bad luck in FP2, I'm the first to say. 

"But for some reason, we've turned up today and I thought I could salvage it from yesterday, but we're missing something. It's really clear driving it and the lap times and everything that we're really struggling." 

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  • f1dave

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    Excuses, excuses. His driving talent is against him.

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    • Mar 25 2017 - 16:30
    • He had a very unlucky weekend

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      • Mar 25 2017 - 19:11
  • ianf1

    Posts: 185

    Hmm, seem to remember everything conspired against him last year too. Funny that.

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    • Mar 25 2017 - 18:54
    • mbmwe36

      Posts: 533

      Exactly. He's a mediocre f1 driver who should be absolutely ecstatic that he's even on the grid this year.

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      • Mar 25 2017 - 20:42

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