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Palmer accepts blame for mistake "under pressure"

Jolyon Palmer owned up to making a mistake under pressure as he crashed out of Q1 at the Russian Grand Prix, on a weekend blighted by mechanical problems. The Renault driver has endured a run of issues through the Sochi weekend – with a hot exhaust damaging his car on Friday, his new chassis stopping with an engine failure on Saturday morning and then the shunt in qualifying leaving him 16th fastest. The Briton had a new engine fitted for qualifying. "Obviously losing track time this morning is not ideal," explained Palmer, when asked by Motorsport.com about what had happened. "Qualifying was actually going okay. I was quite happy with the car and then, on the second set of...
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