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Palmer chose reserve Lotus role over Manor race seat
GP2 Series champion Jolyon Palmer opted for the reserve seat at Lotus rather than hoping talks with the former Marussia team bore fruit for the 2015 season. Palmer, whose father Jonathan was also a F1 driver, won the GP2 title last year and had hoped it would be his ticket to a race seat. Instead, the 24-year-old Briton has signed to be Lotus' reserve driver this year, including some winter testing and the promise of some Friday practice outings. But his dream of actually racing in F1 might have come true in 2015, if he had kept up talks with the team formerly known as Marussia. Now called Manor, the backmarker is currently rushing to ready a 2015 rules-conforming car, having emerged...
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