JOLYON Palmer is expecting Enstone’s Renault cars to be competitive when the Formula 1 season reaches Canada this weekend.

The Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve shares similarities with Monaco, where the British driver narrowly missed out on claiming his first point of the season.

Palmer said: “Monaco is good practice I think, we had a strong race there and hopefully we can build on the confidence.

“It will be a similar story to Monaco in terms of the new cars, with width and wider rear tyres making things tricky.

“We’ll do everything we can to maximise the car around the track and we’ll be pushing all the way as usual.”