{"id":21774,"date":"2014-05-01T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21774"},"modified":"2014-05-01T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T11:03:10","slug":"renault-eyeing-100pc-by-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-eyeing-100pc-by-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault eyeing ‘100pc’ by Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Renault is on the road to getting “100 per cent” from its new turbo V6 engine, according to operations chief Remi Taffin.<\/p>\n

\"Remi-Taffin-1\"Earlier deep in pre-season crisis, the French marque has made great progress with its ‘power unit’ since then, but Taffin warns that there is still work to do.<\/p>\n

“I would not say that we are optimistic; we are realistic,” he is quoted by ICI Radio Canada.<\/p>\n

Taffin said engine power is “not enormously important” at Barcelona and Monaco, the venues for the next two grands prix.<\/p>\n

Still, Renault is using the three-week calendar break between the last race in China, and next weekend’s Spanish grand prix, wisely.<\/p>\n

“Maybe in Montreal we will be close to 100 per cent,” said Taffin.<\/p>\n

“Overall, this is promising, but we must not forget that we also need reliability,” he added.<\/p>\n

“It is obvious that we are the engine manufacturer that has probably introduced the most new parts for our engine, and they must be reliable,” said Taffin.<\/p>\n

“It is not only performance, we also need to finish.”<\/p>\n

At the same time, he also acknowledged the existing gap to the industry-leading F1 engine maker, Mercedes.<\/p>\n

Asked to talk about the margin to the German marque, Taffin said: “It’s hard to say.\u00a0 But what we can say is that Mercedes is faster on the straights and, for the moment, better for the entire lap.<\/p>\n

“So I guess the German engine is better than ours.\u00a0 That said, there are factors other than the V6 itself – the turbo and the electrical components – where you can gain power.<\/p>\n

“Also you cannot forget the fuel, and work is progressing well with Total,” he added.\u00a0 “I think we will move forwards.”<\/p>\n

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Renault is on the road to getting “100 per cent” from its new turbo V6 engine, according to operations chief Remi Taffin. Earlier deep in pre-season crisis, the French marque has made great progress with its ‘power unit’ since then, but Taffin warns that there is still work to do. “I would not say that …<\/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":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,3822,911],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21774"}],"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=21774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21775,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21774\/revisions\/21775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}