Renault may return as works team

If you build a great car you can still do very well as a customer rather than a factory team. I'm pretty sure Mclaren outperformed their engine supplier in Mercedes for three seasons in the constructors. No reason Red Bull couldn't do the same.

If Williams had a Red Bull budget last year it would have been interesting to see what improvement they could have made on third.

Customer supply is fine as long as you have a large budget and the ability to package that engine with a great car. That is no problem for RB.

 

More the merrier IMO..

 

Hope Renault does so, but I have a feeling they might want to buy back their old team for a song. Not sure they want a team based out of Switzerland. Hope to see their iconic yellow/black/white factory colours on the grid in the future.

 

Sorry guys, but to me as a frenchman UNLESS Carlos Goshn himself, and no-one else, speaks about the perspective of a return as a constructor, I consider the perspective "less than negligible": about "infinitesimal", I would say.

Now: if, or when, this comes from CG himself, then it would be completly different. But, for the time being, this is not (yet?) the case.

Rgds

 

I would agree. I cant see the economic conditions in France alowing Renault to even think about spending money in F-1 for a full team. Catastrophe! Hollande would "dit Non!"

 

Quite possibly pondering a 'percentage' of a team rather than complete takeover/ownership.

 

Renault may return as works team ?


I hope not !

I am rather fed up with a car manufacturer getting in and out of F1 like a yo-yo !
When will Renault make up its mind if it belongs to F1 or not?

Car manufacturers come in F1 with big budget, squash the small teams and then leave at short notice.

We have seen Honda in, out, in, out, then in again !
Peugeot, Toyota and BMW did the same.

 

Amen brother!

 

Well said my friend! I'll never forget how BMW just abandoned ship, with lying to everyone and selling to a mysterious 'middle eastern and qatari consortium' only for the last minute Peter Sauber to reach in and save the team.

These guys should just shut it and be engine suppliers.

As for Carlos Ghosn, i highly doubt as long as he remains CEO, we will see Renault as a works team again.

 

We've got this cockamamie engine formula because the big automakers demanded relevance.

Nuff sed.

 

Once they are finished with the current push for hybrid relevance and eventually electric F1 cars, they will want to move on to the new holy grail looming on the horizon...SELF-DRIVING CARS. That should be fun. The winner will be the geek who can best preprogram the car to read the circuit and react accordingly.