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Jolyon Palmer is hoping for a breakthrough in performance this weekend in Bahrain, as the Brit has had poor fortunes at the first two events of the season in Melbourne and Shanghai.
His qualifying sessions were ruined on both occasions, with a crash in Australia and a penalty in China. His race in Shanghai was consequently destroyed as he started from the back, while brake issues forced him to retire at the season opener in Melbourne. However, he is hoping that this weekend will be kinder to him, as he thinks the car is competitive with the midfield.
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"The performance of the car is pretty good as Nico [Hulkenberg] has been showing like in China in qualifying," Palmer said. "So it is about having a trouble-free race weekend, getting some laps on Friday as I think I've done about 10 so far across two weekends so it would be nice to have a clean weekend to try to get the points."
Despite his China struggles, Palmer stated it was a much better weekend than Australia, but starting at the back made it harder for him to make gains in the race.
"No, I just think we’ve had particularly difficult weekends. Australia was a very tough weekend for many reasons but China was much better," Palmer admitted.
"The car was feeling good and I finally had a clean session in FP3 and we were in the top 10. In qualifying, I really thought I could make it into Q3 as well but I didn't get a lap in for Q1. Starting from the back it was difficult to do much and we couldn't make much inroads.
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