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Renault admits it changed "too much" with 2017 engine
Renault has admitted it made too big a change with its Formula 1 engine over last winter, and has paid the price with reliability struggles this year. Having felt that its own power unit had reached the limit of development, Renault embarked on a concept revamp to give itself scope to close in on the benchmark Mercedes and Ferrari engines. But after the manufacturer hit reliability headaches over the course of this year – which has included it needing to revert to using its 2016 MGU-K - Renault managing director Cyril Abiteboul has confessed that its ambitions were perhaps too big. “I cannot look professional if I tell you that these were expected problems, because we don’t design a...
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