A profile of the Renault F1 team, giving its current driver lineup, latest results and points scored plus current position in the constructors championship standings. The 2020 season would see Renault pick up 3 podium positions but yet again finish the season 5th in the championship. Also looks at its history and key information such as team principal and where the team is based. Renault’s iconic yet modern yellow and black livery is set to change from 2021 when the team rebrands itself to Alpine F1 with a possible livery change reminiscent of the French tricolor. 1994  Williams [39], On 11 January 2017, Frédéric Vasseur left the team after disagreements with team personnel,[40][41] therefore the team was managed by president Jérôme Stoll and managing director Cyril Abiteboul. This broke Ferrari's six-year stranglehold on that title. The Spanish driver is synonymous with the team’s history in Formula 1. Renault F1 Team. 2019  Mercedes, Renault Sport Formula One Team and Renault F1 Team (2016–2020), Naturally aspirated engines (1990s and 2000s). 2-Time Formula One World Champion Fernando Alonso would be making a return to Formula One driving alongside Esteban Ocon for the 2021 season. Follow your favourite F1 drivers on and off the track. 9. [22] Renault continued to support the team by supplying engines and its expertise. [69], At the end of 2010, when Renault sold their remaining stake in the Enstone-based Formula One team, the engine operations at Viry-Châtillon were formed into a subsidiary known as Renault Sport F1. Red Bull were a midfield team during the first two years of the partnership, before a change in regulations for the 2009 season allowed Red Bull to claim their first victory at the Chinese Grand Prix. Alain Prost was signed up for 1981. [7] According to the charge, the information in hand "included the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren car as well as details of McLaren's fuelling system, gear assembly, hydraulic control system and suspension". ... marking the latest end of Renault's association with Formula 1. Benetton won the constructors' title by 29 points, winning 11 races during the season. The Renault R23 is a Formula One car that competed in the 2003 Formula One season.The driver lineup were Jarno Trulli and Fernando Alonso who replaced Jenson Button who left for British American Racing.The chassis was designed by Mike Gascoyne, Bob Bell, Tim Densham and John Iley with Pat Symonds overseeing the design and production of the car as Executive Director of Engineering and … On the contrary, it chose the occasion to take the wraps off of its most potent and driver-focused Mégane yet - Mégane Renaultsport 230 F1 Team R26. Meanwhile, Groupe Renault - the multinational group behind the Renault F1 team - has removed the Renault name from F1 for 2021 and replaced it with Alpine; its rejuvenated car brand. The team's début was delayed until the following round, the British Grand Prix. The FIA announced its intention to appeal that decision and Renault announced they would not race with the system for fear of retrospective punishment if the appeal was upheld. They returned for the Dutch Grand Prix, and the qualifying performance was much improved as Jabouille qualified tenth. The history of the team acquired by Renault started in 1981 as the Toleman Motorsport team, based in Witney, Oxfordshire, England. 2013  Red Bull Headwear; T-Shirts; Sale Items; All Departments. The team would yet again finish 4th in the championship but make remarkable progress in terms of pace. At the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix, Scuderia Toro Rosso announced a contract with Renault for the period 2014–2016. However, Villeneuve – away from F1 racing for almost an entire season and struggling to acclimatise quickly to racing at the premier level – did not impress, and the team finished third behind Villeneuve's former team BAR. In 2010, Renault sold a majority stake in the team to Genii Capital, a Luxembourg based investment company. … In January 2011, team principal Éric Boullier announced that the team would race under a British licence in 2011, having raced as a French outfit since Renault took over in 2002. #27 Nico Hulkenberg. Fernando Alonso 31. The car for 2007, the R27, was unveiled on 24 January 2007 in Amsterdam, and bore a new yellow, blue, orange and white livery in deference to the corporate colours of ING, the Dutch financial group based in Amsterdam. Fernando Alonso then won the next three races to build a considerable lead in the Drivers' World Championship, thereby doing the same for Renault in the Constructors' Championship. In 2012, the programme was renamed … As a team owner Renault has won two constructors' and drivers' championships, while as an engine manufacturer it has 12 constructors' and 11 drivers' championships. On 9 December 2011, the team also confirmed that Romain Grosjean would join Räikkönen in 2012. The FIA found Renault F1 in breach of article 151c but did not penalise the team. Prost won nine races with the team while Arnoux added two more in 1982. 1987  Williams After his first podium of the year in Singapore, Fernando Alonso confirmed that he would be leaving Renault, moving to Ferrari in 2010. On 6 February 2011, Robert Kubica was severely injured in an accident during a rally in Italy. Jabouille's car and engine proved highly unreliable and became something of a joke during its first races, earning the nickname of "Yellow Teapot" and failing to finish any of its races despite being comparatively powerful. [89] In the early part of the season, the Energy F1-2014 was the subject of various criticisms for its poor reliability and lack of top speed,[90][91][92] including one by Red Bull's boss Christian Horner which described the performance as "unacceptable" after an unsuccessful team's home race in Austria. Sauber. Check out this season's official F1 line-up. The Chinese driver is Renault DP World F1 Team’s Test Driver and currently sits eighth in the 2020 Drivers’ standings with one win and five podiums this year. Drivers. The team turned to Frenchman Patrick Tambay (who had left Ferrari) and Englishman Derek Warwick (formerly of Toleman) to bring them back to prominence. The Renault RS01 was well known for its Renault-Gordini V6 1.5 L turbocharged engine, the first regularly used turbo engine in Formula One history. [18] On 31 January, Vitaly Petrov was signed to be Kubica's teammate, becoming Russia's first Formula One driver. [36], On 3 February 2016, Renault unveiled the testing livery for their 2016 car, the Renault R.S.16, and confirmed Kevin Magnussen and Jolyon Palmer as its two race drivers, 2015 GP3 champion Esteban Ocon as its reserve driver, Carmen Jordá as its development driver, and that multiple drivers, including 2015 Formula Renault 3.5 champion Oliver Rowland, Jack Aitken, Louis Delétraz and Kevin Jorg are a part of its driver academy. 2006  Renault [37] Renault Sport F1 is mainly partnered with the Renault-Nissan Alliance. Prost was fired two days after the 1983 season following his public comments about the team's lack of development of the Renault RE40 which resulted in his loss to Piquet and the team's loss to Ferrari in the 1983 championship. Renault. XS; S/M; XL; Featured Departments. Photo by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images. 2018  Mercedes 2017 F1 drivers and teams – latest updates. Renault: 2021 Latest News, Results, Drivers and Car Updates. Reduced: US$26.00. 1982  Ferrari Additionally, Bob Bell (formerly of Mercedes, Marussia and the previous incarnation of Renault) was confirmed as the team's chief technical officer and Frédéric Vasseur (of ART Grand Prix) as the new racing director. He had a poor start, but ran as high as sixth before the suspension failed on lap 40. Alonso ran third for most of the race, unable to challenge the Ferraris of Schumacher and Massa. The field is largely the same, but eight drivers will make either their F1 debuts or team debuts for the 2021 Formula 1 season. It has collected over 160 wins as engine supplier, ranking fourth in Formula One history. Mia Sharizman, Renault Sport Academy Director: “The tests in Bahrain are part of a planned programme that the Academy has delivered every year for the past three years. In 1986, aristocrat Johnny Dumfries was chosen to be Senna's new partner at Lotus after Senna vetoed the original choice of Derek Warwick. Photo by: Steve Etherington / Motorsport Images. They left the sport after the 2011 season, finding their way back in 2016. Darüber hinaus ist das Unternehmen einer der erfolgreichsten Hersteller von Formel-1-Motoren der letzten 30 Jahre. Renault was innovative during this period producing non-standard designs such as the 111° 10-cylinder engine for the 2003 RS23 which was designed to effectively lower the center of gravity of the engine and thus improve the car's handling. 2002  Ferrari Heikki Kovalainen struggled in Bahrain too, although the gap between himself and Fisichella at the end of the race was not as great as was seen at Melbourne, with Fisichella finishing only 8th. In 1983, Renault and Prost came very close to winning the drivers' title but were edged out by Nelson Piquet (Brabham-BMW) at the last race of the season in South Africa. [59], Renault returned as a Formula One engine supplier in 1989 with the banning of turbocharged engines, in partnership with the Williams team. Because Formula One limits the number of physical test runs and wind tunnel hours teams can perform, Renault’s engineers rely heavily on computer simulation to gain a razor-thin edge. In 2011, the programme was renamed LRGP Academy, following the rebranding of the team to "Lotus Renault GP". 1993  Williams Benetton acquired Ligier's Renault engines for 1995 and their driver, Michael Schumacher, managed to successfully defend his drivers' title by 33 points from his nearest rival, Damon Hill. Piquet had described the 2009 season as "the worst period of my career" and had criticised team boss Flavio Briatore. The Alpine Academy – formerly known as the RF1 Driver Programme, Renault Driver Development and Renault Sport Academy – is a program to support young racing drivers through their careers. Arnoux left for rival Ferrari after 1982 and was replaced by American Eddie Cheever. 2006 Renault Megane 230 F1 Team R26 Year: Leclerc impressed in just his second year in F1, taking on and beating team-mate Sebastian Vettel in the drivers’ championship and scoring three wins to the German’s one, and has been the quicker of the two so far this season. The F1 2021 season is already underway but the Renault F1 team is missing in the paddock. Despite outscoring his teammate during 2002, Button was dropped by Renault in 2003. The team's pace began to pick up in Barcelona, with both drivers making it into Q3, setting competitive lap times in the race (4th fastest lap for Kovalainen) and looking set for 5th and 8th, only to be hampered by an identical problem on both fuel rigs, forcing both drivers to make extra pitstops which dropped them back to 7th and 9th. At the French Grand Prix, Renault were expected to be faster than Ferrari, but Ferrari again had the advantage. The team started 2008 in a similar manner as the year before; Fernando Alonso managed to garner fourth at the opening Australian Grand Prix as a result of a mistake from previous Renault employee Heikki Kovalainen. On 29 November 2011, the team confirmed that they had hired Kimi Räikkönen to drive full-time in 2012. Results did not improve until the start of the European season, although both drivers finished in the points in the next race at Malaysia. [65] Benetton continued to use the engines under the Playlife brand until 2000, although only achieved several podiums during this time.
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