Jolyon Palmer’s time at Renault will end on Sunday, following a mutual decision not to continue for the rest of the season. Carlos Sainz will replace Palmer in Austin. This means that Pierre Gasly will almost certainly not try to win the Formula Nippon Championship on the October 22 weekend, leaving the championship to sort itself out without him. He cannot win it if he does not take part but as his ultimate goal is to get to F1, it is irrelevant whether he wins it or not, if the Scuderia Toro Rosso drive is his for the taking. It has been clear for a while that Palmer’s situation was tenuous for the rest of the year, but as he had a contract to continue the goal was to do that, in the hope that good results would help him get a drive elsewhere for 2018. Given the availability of seats next year, there was not much hope of that, as he is not believed to be in the running at Williams, Toro Rosso or Sauber, and so it is probably best to spend his time looking at other options rather than trying to make something happen in F1.
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