Fernando Alonso set the fastest time on the second day at Jerez today.
His lap of 1 min 18.343 was 5/100th faster than Rubens Barrichello’s best in the Brawn. This compares with the time of 1min 19.945, he set on the final day of the last Jerez test a fortnight ago. This does not mean that [...]
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Renault and McLaren on the up
Posted in McLaren, Renault, Teams, Testing on March 16, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Why Renault is right to be scared
Posted in Renault, tagged Renault on January 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »
There have been some worried noises coming out of Renault staff in recent weeks and delving around it’s not hard to see why. The staff have had to take a pay cut, they have acknowledged that there will be a round of redundancies and the title sponsor, Dutch banking and insurance group ING is laying [...]
Superfit Alonso aims high
Posted in Alonso, Drivers, Renault, tagged Alonso, Renault on January 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
It’s been a busy couple of days in the F1 world, with three car launches and some more rhetoric in the escalating war of words between Bernie Ecclestone and the F1 teams association, FOTA.
Let’s start with Renault. Fernando Alonso says he can win the championship with this car, he’s ecstatic about the wind tunnel figures, [...]
