Romain Grosjean will assume the role of Renault’s official reserve driver at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend. The Swiss-born Frenchman is replacing injured GP2 driver and regular F1 reserve Ho-Pin Tung at ...
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Renault to debut F-duct in Belgium – reports
Renault’s 2010 car will finally be fitted with an F-duct system for the Belgian grand prix this weekend and beyond. The Enstone based team decided later than its rivals to ...
Read More »Renault to upgrade F1 wind tunnel
Enstone based Renault is set to increase the scale size of its formula one wind tunnel. The team’s wind tunnel and rolling road currently operates with 50 per cent scale ...
Read More »Renault not a better team than Force India – Sutil
Adrian Sutil has revealed he would be reluctant to switch to the Renault team for 2011. The 27-year-old, who has raced for the same Silverstone based team – as Spyker ...
Read More »Renault not ruling out driver change for 2011
Enstone based F1 team Renault is not ruling out a driver change for 2011. The likelihood that Vitaly Petrov, a Russian rookie and pay-driver, will retain his seat alongside Robert ...
Read More »Renault engine deal for Lotus due soon – report
Lotus will reportedly confirm its switch to Renault engine power for the 2011 season during the August break. The new Malaysian-backed team is currently equipped with Cosworth engines, but Italia ...
Read More »Petrov ‘definitely’ on track for 2011 seat – Boullier
Vitaly Petrov boosted his chances of retaining his Renault race seat for 2011 with a strong weekend in Hungary. First, the rookie Russian achieved the rare feat of outqualifying his ...
Read More »Renault reserve Tung suffers back injury
Ho-Pin Tung also sustained a back injury in Saturday’s GP2 crash. We reported earlier that Jules Bianchi, a development driver under contract with Ferrari, fractured a vertebrae in a nose-to-nose ...
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