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[alpiner]

The Renault Sport F1 team has named Canadian GP2 racer Nicholas Latifi as a test driver.

 

A native of Toronto, Latifi raced in EuroSeries F3 in 2013 and '14, finishing 15th and 10th in the respective seasons. Last year, he competed in Renault 3.5, as well as running a partial season of GP2. This year he is driving for the French DAMS team in GP2.

Latifi was a non-factor in both GP2 and the Renault 3.5 Series in 2015. He failed to score a point in his seven GP2 starts, and he failed to finish six of the nine races he started in Renault 3.5, with no podiums, either. He finished 11th in the Renault points standings.

 

[alpiner]

Former F1 driver Robert Doornbos says he is not expecting Renault to shine in 2016.

 

One of the problems, the former Minardi and Red Bull driver said, is Jolyon Palmer, who Doornbos does not rate highly.

 

"He was the GP2 champion in 2014," the Dutchman acknowledged to Ziggo Sport Totaal, "but that was in my view a very weak achievement."

 

However, Palmer - making his F1 debut this year with Renault after serving as the Enstone team's Friday driver in 2015 - did beat the likes of Stoffel Vandoorne and Felipe Nasr in 2014.

 

But Doornbos insisted: "Magnussen is a much bigger talent."

 

Edited by alpiner, 15 March 2016 - 08:49.

[alpiner]

'I lost a kidney and a lot of blood'

[Doorn]

[alpiner]

[DASUBO]

Au kume, što vam je lep auto sa ovim bojama.
Neka je sa srećom.

[Hertzog]

Super boje... Pravo osvezenje na gridu

[stex]

baš lep!

[Wingman]

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Here she is folks, in all her gloriously yellowness - the R.S.16! #YELLOW

Edited by Wingman, 16 March 2016 - 14:45.

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[alpiner]

Renault considers F1 "Art Car" idea

[alpiner]

Article by AutoSport

Renault has introduced engine updates aimed at producing more power and better reliability for the 2016 Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

The French manufacturer believes it found half a second per lap with updates it ran during pre-season testing, and it has made further changes to its power unit since the conclusion of running at Barcelona earlier this month.

Renault managing director Cyril Abiteboul said: "There is new stuff on the engine, first and foremost, to make it perform a bit better, a bit more power, but also much more reliable.

"Touch wood I hope that is what we see over the weekend." Recalling the disastrous start to last season, Abiteboul added: "I'm smiling now because last year, after flying to Melbourne I switched on my mobile phone and I saw a text from [Red Bull team principal] Christian Horner. "He said that after 46 kilometres they had broken an engine.

"That's the sort of thing I don't want to see us reproducing, so reliability is the big, big target for this weekend.

"We will also have the capacity to extract all the performance that is available in the engine, something we were not in a position to do last year for a number of reasons, which were both hardware and software related.

"So there should be more performance to come, and also more reliability."

[alberto.ascari]

Yessss!!!

 

Žuto kume, tako treba!

 

Ja vam želim časnu borbu za treće mesto, ali bojim se da će dva podijuma ove sezone biti veleuspeh.

[alpiner]

Još uvek je taj motor slabiji i šasija sklepana. Nedostaje gomila inženjera...

 

Svaki bod će biti velika stvar za početak. Podijum je za sada nedodirljiv

[Wingman]

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This is too good @RenaultSportF1 #teambanana