Renault F1

20 years or so? they will be lucky to make 2025 unless they really get to grips with it ..Yes as Ross B said it is bit by bit approach but they need some really BIG dramatic changes to save the ship from sinking fast.

 

Ghosn resigns as CEO of Renault two months after arrest.

Renault elects Michelin CEO Senard as new chairman.

 

Ghosn will be a hard act to follow in the automotive undustry, just like Iacocca was

 

Drop the mandatory hybrid engines and go full fossil fuel (turbo and non-turbo) vs full electric vs hydrogen vs hybrid...whatever...minimal rules beyond cubic inch displacement/equivalent. Let each team chose what they want to run. Have a weight limit and a limit aero complexity. Stop restricting how many engines or trans you can use. Three types of tires for everyone...soft hard and wet. Make the entry costs the same for everyone, but the prize money goes on results. The smartest teams and engineers will get the most wins for the buck. The audience will have multiple technologies to cheer for. And have open testing...no restrictions...every team makes their own decisions on how to use it.

Put the F1 Drivers Assoc. in charge of disciplining drivers, let the teams be in charge of monitoring themselves. Let the FIA run the venues and administer the money. Make it as simple as possible but let each team decide how much they want to spend for themselves.

 

Sounds good, but it would be very difficult to write the technical rules for that, to give everyone a fair chance.

The rule makers have traditionally been very bad at making rules to mix different engines concepts; like turbo v. atmo; or ICE against turbine, etc ...

 

DR in new duds.

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VERY excited to see the delta between these 2. I think it could be surprising to some.....

Kevin

 

I would be very happy to see Renault beat Red Bull in the WCC !

 

Absolutely. And DR to place well ahead of Vintage Max.

 

I'd like to see Honda succeed, but rather see RBR implode because of their treatment of DR.

 

STR FTW
an unlikely fantasy, but would be wonderful to see them outplace RBR. Honda and Renault both being competitive is good of course...is or wrong of me to wish problems on Merc? Just a DNF or two...or three.

 

Nice article on Ricci and Renault for the new season - https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/47210981

 

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/141568/ricciardo-risk-of-failure-greater-at-red-bull

New Renault Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo says the "risk of failure" would have been greater if he stayed with Red Bull and its new engine partner Honda for 2019.

Ricciardo's shock Red Bull departure was the one of the biggest stories of last season as he opted to join the Renault works team despite enduring reliability problems with Renault's engines at his existing team.

Renault has swiftly improved since returning to F1 as a team in 2016, finishing fourth in the constructors' championship last year, but Ricciardo is still unlikely to challenge his former team or Mercedes and Ferrari for victories this season.

"There is a bit of a gamble with it but the more I think about it I don't see it too much as a gamble in terms of [comparison] with Red Bull," said Ricciardo.

"We're not coming in the team saying we're going to win so the expectation and the bar is not initially very high, whereas at Red Bull every year we kind of built ourselves up because we'd won in the past.

"Every year you kind of feel it's going to happen and the risk is being let down every year.

"I feel like the risk of failure [staying at Red Bull] is greater than coming here and having the risk of not winning, if that makes sense.

"Out of the two options they both have some risk, but with risk comes reward and because the growth here is potentially a lot bigger I feel that the reward can certainly be bigger here and the ability to become less frustrated is better here."

 

Translation: I'm through playing second fiddle to Max

 

Additional translation: I don't have faith in Honda.

 

What fair rules? Bring your fastest cars and your bravest drivers and to the victor goes the spoils. Racing!

 

The wife has me entered in some contest to attend the British gp as a guest of Renault

 

Good luck! Too bad it wasn't with a Brit team, but Williams would make you pay $100k to collect your prize.

 

Formula Libre ?

 

Melbourne 2019

DR early retirement and Sainz with an overheating issue (MGU- K).

 

Hey Daniel, RedBull gives you wiiings. Unfortunately you lost yours.

 

Chinese GP 2019...1000th race

[Racefans] Renault introduce new MGU-K to fix reliability problems. All 4 drivers will use a new specification of MGU-K this weekends GP.

 

How will this work via MGU-K allocation? Does this mean that Sainz will be on his 3rd unit and the other 3 on their 2nd? I hope it is successful there is a long season ahead.

 

I despair with Renault's racing strategy.
Here is a major car manufacturer entering the Big Game of F1, but the company behind the team don't seem really commited.
After 6 years in the hybrid formula, Renault is still lagging behind.
Their power units are both less powerful, and less reliable than the opposition, and their chassis are below average too.
After Abiteboul's reassurance that things were changing, I expected some improvement this year.

 

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