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Vasseur buoyed by Renault test showing after late takeover
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Renault racing director Frédéric Vasseur says he is “very happy” with how his team performed in F1 pre-season testing coming off a challenging 2015 campaign and “very late” Lotus takeover. The French manufacturer bought out the cash-strapped Enstone outfit last December and only had a couple of months to insert a Renault power unit in a chassis initially designed for a Mercedes engine. Although Renault experienced a series of glitches across the eight days of running in Spain – which mostly affected Jolyon Palmer –, the team still managed to complete 782 laps this winter, 75 more than McLaren-Honda for instance. “It was a bit challenging to be in...
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