No F-duct in the works for Renault

Renault's Eric Boullier has ruled out an F-duct system which is currently in use by rivals McLaren and BMW Sauber, since the Frenchmen doesn't see the need to introduce the drag-reducing system and prefers to introduce more traditional updates to their two R30's.

"We don't want to be disturbed by copying something that we don't think is so dramatically faster. We will keep our strategy and keep our head down," Boullier explained to our colleagues over at 'autosport'.

While also speaking about their promising results in the first free practice, "I am more encouraged than happy. It is better to be first than last, but being first in free practice is not very exciting. We knew already coming from Bahrain that our car should be good here. We didn't know and couldn't say by how much because we brought here some new aero development and mechanical buts, but knew we should be in better shape than Bahrain.

"Every race we will have the same amount of new development parts, which is quite huge compared to normal," he added.