The Renault team entered 2010 with as a fundamentally new team after the famous deliberate crash scandal that resulted in the FIA banning the two most influential persons within the team from the sport. Both of Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds were banned from conducting any activity within the sport after investigations proved both deliberately instructed Nilson Piquet Jr. to purposely crash during the Singaporean Grand Prix to bring out the safety car which helped his team-mate then Fernando Alonso who happened to just pitted at the same time and go to the race in fornt and win the race. Piquet was given immunity after coming out about the accident, while Alonso was cleared of any wrongdoing or knowledge about it.
With a new organization within the team, it was a big task for the new management team to prove it is capable of bringing the 2005 and 2006 championship winning team to the top again. Well, new team boss Eric Boullier proved he’s worthy of such a task, bringing Robert Kubica to fill the huge gap left by Fernando Alonso as a driver, and reorganizing the entire team to focus on producing a good car after a couple of disappointing seasons.
Robert Kubica turned to be what Renault really needs; a fast, consistent, and a leading driver, with Vitally Petrov alongside as his team-mate, Kubica led the team to an excellent performance throughout the 2010 season, securing very strong results and squeezing the most out of the Renault car which wasn’t on par with the top four teams’ cars, even so he managed to punch above his weight and challenge at the front on several occasions securing podiums and pushing the team’s entire developmental and strategic into the right direction, by the end of the season, Kubica has even outscored his team-mate by a huge margin. After a difficult 2009 campaign with BMW, he proved himself once again as one of the fastest in the field.
The team is retaining its good combination of drivers for 2011, as well as, progressing well with its car development, carrying over the good performance of 2010. We expect big things from Renault this year.
Next week, we will bring the latest news and developments in the sport until the start of the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix 2011, including all the new 2011 Formula One 12 cars.
With a new organization within the team, it was a big task for the new management team to prove it is capable of bringing the 2005 and 2006 championship winning team to the top again. Well, new team boss Eric Boullier proved he’s worthy of such a task, bringing Robert Kubica to fill the huge gap left by Fernando Alonso as a driver, and reorganizing the entire team to focus on producing a good car after a couple of disappointing seasons.
Robert Kubica turned to be what Renault really needs; a fast, consistent, and a leading driver, with Vitally Petrov alongside as his team-mate, Kubica led the team to an excellent performance throughout the 2010 season, securing very strong results and squeezing the most out of the Renault car which wasn’t on par with the top four teams’ cars, even so he managed to punch above his weight and challenge at the front on several occasions securing podiums and pushing the team’s entire developmental and strategic into the right direction, by the end of the season, Kubica has even outscored his team-mate by a huge margin. After a difficult 2009 campaign with BMW, he proved himself once again as one of the fastest in the field.
The team is retaining its good combination of drivers for 2011, as well as, progressing well with its car development, carrying over the good performance of 2010. We expect big things from Renault this year.
Next week, we will bring the latest news and developments in the sport until the start of the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix 2011, including all the new 2011 Formula One 12 cars.
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