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Palmer: Pre-season 'a little bit disastrous'

– Joylon Palmer has admitted that pre-season preparations for his rookie campaign have been a "little bit disastrous" as he suffered the bulk of the reliability issues at Renault.Initial software struggles restricted Palmer to only 79 laps across the opening test, the least mileage of any driver, while gearbox and hydraulics problems affected his run plan at the second test.Despite comfortably surpassing his week one lap count in the second group session, Palmer conceded that his experience at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was far from ideal."[It's been] more frustration," Palmer commented."In the end we managed to get a little bit of performance running...
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