Cosworth could be left with just a single formula one customer in 2012, according to the latest reports in the specialist media.<\/p>\n
New HRT consultant Luis Perez-Sala said last month that the Spanish team “will stay” with its current engine supplier next season because “we have a contract”.<\/p>\n
But Italy’s Autosprint, and the Spanish sports daily AS, are reporting that HRT has been in talks with Renault about a two-year engine supply contract beginning in 2012.<\/p>\n
Autosprint said the deal could also involve HRT using the rear end of the Lotus-Renault R31 that is raced this year by Vitaly Petrov and Bruno Senna, despite the Spanish team currently using a Williams gearbox.<\/p>\n
If confirmed, the engine deal would make HRT Renault’s fifth customer team for 2012, along with Red Bull, Renault, Team Lotus and Williams.<\/p>\n
“If we have to supply more partners I would not be opposed to it,” Renault’s chief operating officer Carlos Tavares said this week.\u00a0 “As we have more partners we dilute our costs.”<\/p>\n
The speculation comes after it emerged at Monza that Cosworth’s F1 boss Mark Gallagher is leaving the Northampton based engine maker.<\/p>\n
“What does it say for Cosworth’s future?” The Times correspondent Kevin Eason wondered at the time.<\/p>\n
It is also rumoured this week that Jorg Zander, the high-profile former Williams, BMW, Honda and Brawn designer, could be headed to HRT after meeting with team boss Colin Kolles at Monza last weekend.<\/p>\n
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