Renault Sport Formula One Team driver Jolyon Palmer completed his first ever laps of The Circuit of the Americas ahead of this weekend's United States Grand Prix, ending the day as the seventeenth fastest driver.

Jolyon Palmer, #30, R.S.16-05
Free practice 1: P21, 1:42.332, 31 laps
Free practice 2: P17, 1:39.455, 34 laps

Jo: “My first impressions of COTA are what an awesome track! I did have a couple of moments learning the limits here and we’ve got a bit of work on the set-up, but nothing other than the usual work you do between Friday and Saturday.”

FP3 starts at 1100 local time with qualifying to follow from Texas at 1300.