2019 Renault F1 Team

[Jambier]

I don't understand how he is still here...

I hope this year will be the last with him.
Renault have to understand they need a good team principal, and they need to double the budget

[Godius]

Good performance from Hülkenberg, he did not let Ricciardo get into his mind via the media hype. I think that he is able to win the intra-team battle this season, especially when both drivers keep calm.

[Neno]

I don't understand how he is still here...

I hope this year will be the last with him.
Renault have to understand they need a good team principal, and they need to double the budget

They need car designer. They lack one. They need someone with fresh ideas, fast ideas, someone who knows what is he doing. Someone who is willing to risk to find extra tenth or 50. They failed to recruit one or two from Mercedes, Ferrari and RB when they were mass recruiting. Or find one under their current ranks and promote him with bigger role.

[Jambier]

It's amazing to see them in this position
Overall they are faster than the dying Williams and the Toro Rosso....

And that's all! Their car look like a midfield car, their budget as well.

So they are where they belong. Sad
Abiteboul is a story teller, selling to Renault direction that they can win with 40% budget or resources compare to top teams.

[nokivasara]

I was excited when Renault announced they would enter the F1 again in 2015, the first years they were expected to be pretty slow but this year they need to be up there, right behind RB...
Time to throw the croiss...gauntlet!

[Ground Effect]

I don't understand how he is still here...

I hope this year will be the last with him.
Renault have to understand they need a good team principal, and they need to double the budget

They need car designer. They lack one. They need someone with fresh ideas, fast ideas, someone who knows what is he doing. Someone who is willing to risk to find extra tenth or 50. They failed to recruit one or two from Mercedes, Ferrari and RB when they were mass recruiting. Or find one under their current ranks and promote him with bigger role.

Well, they did hire Pete Machin, who was in Red Bull and Matthew Harman, former Head of Power train integration of Mercedes. But it's only race 1, there could be peculiar reasons for today's performance that may not come into play in Bahrain. More importantly, let's see how they go in the race.

[ME4ME]

To be fair, Hulkenberg didn't got to complete his second timed lap because of a electronic glitch. He likely would've made it into Q3. Ricciardo is still getting settled in.

I expect Renault to make decent progress in the race tomorrow, I think 8th and 9th is possible, and that it'll look a bit more positive looking back at the weekend. But yes, they will have to fight for fourth in the WCC yet again.

[Jambier]

Anyway, it will not be enough.

They are supposed to be a work team.
They should have a budget and technical resources at least equal to Red Bull if they want to just imagine join the top teams

If they don't, well they will have a Toyota like journey until retirement

[Sieper]

1 Renault is not beat yet, they might improve to a confortable 4th this year still, 2 how is it Abiteboul’s fault If he can’t secure the cash, Renault might just not have it to spare.

[zeph]

I was excited when Renault announced they would enter the F1 again in 2015, the first years they were expected to be pretty slow but this year they need to be up there, right behind RB...
Time to throw the croiss...gauntlet!

It's about $$$.

https://www.gptoday.net/en/news/f1/2369 ... s-for-2018

https://www.racefans.net/2018/12/19/how ... -part-one/
https://www.racefans.net/2018/12/26/the ... -part-two/


I do believe Renault has a larger budget for 2019, but still not close to what the top 3 are spending.

[nokivasara]

I was excited when Renault announced they would enter the F1 again in 2015, the first years they were expected to be pretty slow but this year they need to be up there, right behind RB...
Time to throw the croiss...gauntlet!

It's about $$$.

https://www.gptoday.net/en/news/f1/2369 ... s-for-2018

https://www.racefans.net/2018/12/19/how ... -part-one/
https://www.racefans.net/2018/12/26/the ... -part-two/


I do believe Renault has a larger budget for 2019, but still not close to what the top 3 are spending.

Sad but true. But Renault knew it would cost a lot to be competitive going in to it back in 2015...The enstone factory has had the ability and knowledge to produce great F1 cars in the past, that probably doesn't disappear over night.
I'm a bit worried that they might just withdraw from F1 if they aren't getting results pretty quickly. Will they be around for the new era in 2021 if they can't fight for at least podiums this year?

[Nickel]

probably going to depend what the rules around budget caps look like for '21. I think Renault are trying to avoid getting to big and banking on the promised budget cap putting them at just the right size, more or less. Efficiency at that level of spend will become very important if the promised budget cap comes to pass.

[Jambier]

Abiteboul fault is because he is the one convicing direction that they can win without money.

This is a lie.

And I don't believe at all budget cap will exist.
If it exist they will use B teams to share R&D

With what Renault is going through on road car side, it will not be a surprised if they try to sell enstone in 2021

[Capharol]

1 Renault is not beat yet, they might improve to a confortable 4th this year still, 2 how is it Abiteboul’s fault If he can’t secure the cash, Renault might just not have it to spare.

i must disagree with you.... Haas is 4th, Renault split 5th with McLaren and Alfa (Kimi) and close behind comes TR

[Sieper]

One race (well qualy only) in and they had issues. Give it Some time before you state what the deal is.