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Palmer to miss qualifying with cracked chassis

Jolyon Palmer will not take part in qualifying for the Mexican Grand Prix after Renault found a crack in his chassis.

The Briton had been competitive in FP3, finishing the session 14th overall and 0.4s clear of team-mate Kevin Magnussen. However, Palmer will not take part in Saturday afternoon's qualifying session as Renault needs to change his chassis ahead of the race.

Renault used both car crews to work on trying to fix the damage but ran out of time ahead of the start of qualifying at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.

Palmer's future at Renault is currently uncertain, with Nico Hulkenberg already signed to drive for the team in 2017 and Esteban Ocon tipped as a potential candidate to join the German.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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