{"id":5398,"date":"2010-05-15T06:48:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2010-05-15T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:45:04","slug":"renault-eyes-another-f1-engine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-eyes-another-f1-engine-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault eyes another F1 engine deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renault could supply its V8 engines to another team in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Currently, the French marque powers not only the team that bears its name, but also the sport&#8217;s dominant Red Bull Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming its bid to debut in F1 next year, GP2 team ART&#8217;s co-founder Frederic Vasseur admitted he has &#8220;good relationships with Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And Renault&#8217;s head of engine operations Remi Taffin told Auto Hebdo: &#8220;Today, nothing has been done but it is quite possible that Renault will power another team next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that the new deal will replace Red Bull, whose owner Dietrich Mateschitz said in an interview mere days ago that he thinks the Renault is &#8220;30 to 40 horse power&#8221; less powerful than Mercedes&#8217; engine.<\/p>\n<p>But Taffin suggested that the new deal could be in addition to Red Bull and Enstone-based Renault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would not be a problem: we have the capacity both in terms of technology and production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renault could supply its V8 engines to another team in 2011.<\/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":[1610,5262,5261,5340,1598,129,911,55],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398"}],"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=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}