1. Jolyon Carlyle Palmer was born on 20 January 1991 and is a British former racing driver, broadcaster and journalist, who competed in Formula One from 2016 to 2017.
61 Facts About Jolyon Palmer
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Since retiring from racing, Palmer has been a pundit for the BBC, Channel 4 and F1TV.
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Jolyon Palmer drove for Renault Sport F1 Team in Formula One.
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Jolyon Palmer made his Formula One debut with the team at the start of the 2016 season, during which he scored his first World Championship points at the Malaysian Grand Prix.
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Jolyon Palmer stayed with Renault for 2017 through to the Japanese Grand Prix.
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Jolyon Palmer drove for the Lotus Formula One team as a test driver in 2015, stepping up to a full-time race seat the following season when the team received manufacturer backing from Renault.
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Jolyon Palmer is a regular columnist on the BBC Sport website and is a special contributor to the official F1 website, hosting Jolyon Palmer's Analysis following each Grand Prix.
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Jolyon Palmer finished fifth in that championship, with a grand total of 92 points, 46 behind championship winner Adrian Quaife-Hobbs.
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Jolyon Palmer moved up to the main championship in 2006, earning one pole position and four podiums, and again finished fifth in the championship with 101 points, 69 behind champion Luciano Bacheta.
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Jolyon Palmer took part in a second Autumn Trophy, winning four of the six races.
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Jolyon Palmer took part in two races of the 2007 season, winning both but decided to concentrate on Formula Palmer Audi.
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In 2007, Jolyon Palmer moved to the series which his father, Jonathan, created nine years before.
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Jolyon Palmer finished 12th on debut at Silverstone, and his results gradually improved with him taking two wins and two pole positions at Brands, on his way to tenth in the championship.
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Jolyon Palmer recovered in time for the start of the 2008 season, in which he was a championship challenger right up until the last few races of the season.
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Jolyon Palmer secured one win and 11 podiums along with three pole positions and ended up just 22 points behind Jason Moore, in third place.
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The Autumn Trophy and the FPA Shootout brought third places for Jolyon Palmer, taking three podiums from the six races.
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Jolyon Palmer's best result was a sixth-place finish at Imola.
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Jolyon Palmer returned to the series in 2010, winning the opening race of the season at Silverstone, taking the first F2 win by a British driver since his father did so at Mugello in 1983.
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Jolyon Palmer picked up one fifth-place finish in the next round at Marrakech, but bounced back to take both wins and the championship lead in the third round at Monza.
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Jolyon Palmer eventually finished 2nd behind fellow Briton Dean Stoneman.
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Jolyon Palmer made a one-off return to F2 during the 2011 season at the Nurburgring, but was a non-starter in both races.
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Jolyon Palmer made his GP2 Series main season debut in 2011, driving for the Arden International team alongside Josef Kral.
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Jolyon Palmer scored a top ten finish on his debut weekend at Abu Dhabi and more top ten finishes followed at Istanbul and Valencia.
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Jolyon Palmer scored his first win of the year in the Feature Race at the Hungaroring and took pole, fastest lap and the Feature Race win on the streets of Singapore, ending 13 seconds ahead of team-mate Nasr.
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Jolyon Palmer switched to DAMS for the 2014 GP2 Series and topped the opening day of pre-season testing at Abu Dhabi.
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Jolyon Palmer won the Sprint Race the following day to lead the championship, a lead he held for the rest of the year and added another win in the feature race at Monaco.
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At Monza, Jolyon Palmer was forced to start at the back of the grid for the Feature Race, after his DAMS car was found to have less than the mandatory one litre of fuel remaining, having originally qualified fourth.
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Jolyon Palmer clinched the championship at the first possible attempt, with a fourth win of the year at the new Sochi circuit in Russia.
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Jolyon Palmer won the title with three races to spare, and achieved an all-time points record in the series.
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Jolyon Palmer test drove a Force India car at the end of season test at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina Circuit on 25 November 2014.
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On 20 January 2015 it was announced that Jolyon Palmer had signed as test and reserve driver for the Lotus F1 Formula One team for 2015.
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Jolyon Palmer made his debut in the team's 2015 challenger, the E23 Hybrid, on day two of the official pre-season test in Barcelona.
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Jolyon Palmer went on to make his Formula One debut on a Grand Prix weekend as he took to the track in Free Practice One at the third round of the 2015 season in China.
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Jolyon Palmer completed a packed schedule of aerodynamic and set-up work to finish in 15th place overall on his first visit to the Shanghai circuit.
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Jolyon Palmer drove in Free Practice One at the Spanish Grand Prix, recording the 13th fastest time and finishing ahead of Maldonado, before topping the timesheets on the second day of the in-season test in Barcelona on Wednesday 13 May On 11 June 2015 it was announced that he would drive in Free Practice 1 for the rest of the European season, a total of 5 Grands Prix, which would take him from Austria to Italy, replacing Frenchman Romain Grosjean.
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Jolyon Palmer continued in FP1 in both Austria and Britain, his home Grand Prix, to finish in 14th position before suffering from limited running in Hungary.
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Jolyon Palmer tested a new front-wing for Lotus F1 Team in the next Free Practice One session at Spa-Francorchamps, as Romain Grosjean came home third in the Belgian Grand Prix that weekend.
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Jolyon Palmer took part in several further sessions, his final appearance in the Lotus E23 coming at the Abu Dhabi season closer, where technical issues limited him to just 10 minutes' running.
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On 23 October 2015, Jolyon Palmer confirmed his promotion to a full-time race driver for the Renault Sport F1 Team in 2016, and became the first driver from FIA Formula Two Championship alumni to progress to the Formula One team.
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Jolyon Palmer was joined by former McLaren driver Kevin Magnussen for Renault's return to the sport as a constructor, having bought the Lotus F1 Team over the winter.
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Jolyon Palmer repeated that result in the Spanish Grand Prix, coming home ahead of team-mate Magnussen.
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Jolyon Palmer recorded his best result since the season-opening Australian Grand Prix as he came home in 12th in Austria before competing in his maiden home Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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At the Malaysian Grand Prix, Jolyon Palmer had his best result to date and claimed his first World Championship point.
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Jolyon Palmer finished 10th, 14 seconds behind Jenson Button's McLaren and three seconds ahead of Carlos Sainz in a Toro Rosso.
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On 9 November 2016, Renault announced that Jolyon Palmer had extended his deal with them for 2017.
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On 7 October 2017, Renault announced that Jolyon Palmer would leave the team after the end of the Japanese Grand Prix, to be replaced by Toro Rosso driver Carlos Sainz Jr, taking his seat from the United States Grand Prix onwards.
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Jolyon Palmer revealed seven years later that Renault did not tell them their decision before the announcement; he first found out when his brother sent him the news from an Autosport article during the Singapore Grand Prix weekend and had to force a conversation with Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul to confirm it was true.
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In that same revelation, Jolyon Palmer stated he "didn't know" the reasoning for Renault's sudden move.
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Jolyon Palmer has earned considerable praise for his knowledge and delivery, offering strong opinions and a unique insight into modern Formula One.
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Jolyon Palmer offers further insight and analysis from the point of view of the competitor with his regular post-Grand Prix column on the BBC website.
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Jolyon Palmer has appeared as a guest presenter alongside Will Buxton on F1 Live, Liberty Media's post-race paddock show that is available free across the world on social media.
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Jolyon Palmer has written for Sky Sports F1, with a GP2 Diary posted after each event during his time in the series.
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Jolyon Palmer was the regular co-commentator for the GP2 Series on Sky Sports F1 in 2015, and previously commentated alongside future BBC partner Jack Nicholls on the FIA Formula Two Championship.
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Jolyon Palmer competed in the Race of Champions Nations Cup event for Team Young Stars, with DTM race-winner Pascal Wehrlein as his team-mate.
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Jolyon Palmer returned to compete in the 2015 Race of Champions on home soil at the Olympic Stadium in London as part of the Young Stars pairing, racing alongside Pascal Wehrlein.
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The duo were beaten in the quarter finals by England's touring car drivers Andy Priaulx and Jason Plato, before Jolyon Palmer was edged out by GT racer Alex Buncombe in the individual competition.
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On 4 December 2014, Jolyon Palmer was announced as the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers Driver of the Year Award at a prize gala in London.
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Jolyon Palmer was nominated for the Autosport Awards British Competition Driver of the Year in 2014, losing out to Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton.
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Jolyon Palmer collected the British Racing Drivers' Club's Fairfield Trophy in 2014, which is awarded to a BRDC member for outstanding performance throughout the year.
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Jolyon Palmer is the son of former F1 driver and major UK race circuit owner Jonathan Jolyon Palmer.
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Jolyon Palmer is a supporter of Ipswich Town FC and Crystal Palace FC.