Race v Monza was out of sight Renault le gratifying exception. Otherwise, it goes to the team anything but good, mostly squeaks at them qualifications. The blame for this, however, lies mainly in the fact that they had to necessarily turn off your own wind tunnel, which is the team boss Cyril Abiteboul explained to colleagues from Motorsport-Total.com and stressed that the team had no choice in doing so. The Frenchman ties in with the previous owner of the team Genius Capital, which did not perform in the period before Renault's return to Formula 1 regular wind tunnel maintenance. At that time, very little was to be invested in infrastructure and consequently an improvement was urgently needed.
"I admit that we have been pushing this forward over and over again. But now came the moment when we had to do it,”He explained Abiteboul. So is their wind tunnel in the summer rested for several weeks, even after the end of the summer break. “We didn’t have access to the wind tunnel and we lost almost a month because of it, although it must be admitted that this was planned.“But a Frenchman wind tunnel outage does not want to mark as the only reason for the current form teams. This situation was also due to the fact that they are worked on many projects at the same time. So on the race car year 2020 and possibly also at first designs for summer 2021. Drawn below the line this means that there have been delays.
"It was this investment that we had to make if we wanted to achieve our goals," so Abiteboul, which is probably related to the goal of the factory team in this respect. As is well known, it is desired Renault in the medium term connect the best and fight for world title Formula 1. Abiteboul he reckons they will make progress soon, as the wind tunnel is now working hard. “This means that things are coming that fill us with optimism. However, since we need to do much more, I would not like to talk about it."
