{"id":21373,"date":"2014-03-26T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T11:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21373"},"modified":"2014-03-26T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T00:29:45","slug":"renault-expecting-issues-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-expecting-issues-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault expecting ‘issues’ in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Troubled engine supplier Renault is expecting to grapple with more “issues” in Malaysia this weekend.<\/p>\n

After a disastrous winter season, the French marque had improved its new turbo V6 ‘power unit’ for Melbourne, but most partner teams – and notably reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel – still suffered race-ending problems.<\/p>\n

“We had several issues across the cars in Melbourne,” Renault’s operations chief Remi Taffin admitted this week, “but we have recreated the problems in the dyno at Viry.<\/p>\n

\"Remi-Taffin-1\"<\/p>\n

“Most are fixed and the remaining will be under control by Friday in Sepang,” he added.<\/p>\n

“While we anticipate further issues may occur we are much more able to react quickly to minimise their impact,” said Taffin.<\/p>\n

Amid Renault’s problems, Mercedes dominated the 2014 opener in Australia, but even polesitter Lewis Hamilton had to retire with an engine problem.<\/p>\n

Melbourne winner Nico Rosberg said he aims to win again this weekend at Sepang.<\/p>\n

“That’s my goal for sure,” he told Bild newspaper in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n

“But you cannot underestimate the team (Red Bull) that has dominated the sport for years.<\/p>\n

“We just have to keep pushing 100 per cent in all areas,” added Rosberg.<\/p>\n

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Troubled engine supplier Renault is expecting to grapple with more “issues” in Malaysia this weekend. After a disastrous winter season, the French marque had improved its new turbo V6 ‘power unit’ for Melbourne, but most partner teams – and notably reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel – still suffered race-ending problems. “We had several issues across …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,911],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21382,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373\/revisions\/21382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}