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Renault insists it is not giving up on the 2015 season. After Australia, the French manufacturer clashed spectacularly with works partner Red Bull, indicating the pair are on the road to divorce. Remi Taffin, Renault's F1 operations director, said he can understand Red Bull's frustration.
"It was a setback for Red Bull. They're not used to having their cars so far back," he told the French broadcaster Canal Plus. "But we have had only the second race. In neither race has Red Bull been able to show what is really possible, and in Australia the blame was partly ours. At Sepang it was better from our side, and we got a taste of what to expect from Red Bull-Renault," added Taffin.
"As for us, the season actually began in Malaysia. By China, Red Bull will have solved its problems, and then the fun begins. Of course I am not saying that we will win the race, but we have a lot of potential for development, both on the engine and the chassis side. We did not become four times world champion in a row by chance. Red Bull is good at developing a car, and it will pay off sooner or later," he added. (GMM)
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Red Bull needs to stop whining and get their act together, it was pathetic seeing them threatening to quit F1 unless something was done to "equalize" the situation. Beaten by Torro Rosso who has the same engine... They need to work on the chassis and let Renault take care of the engine. Maybe things will improve once their new aero package with short nose passes the FIA crash tests.
Also, I don't believe Renault has 100 bhp less than the Merc engines as RB claims, certainly not the customer version... How else can you explain 4 cars with Merc engines finishing behind all 4 Renault powered cars? An extra 100 bhp will make up for a lot of aero disadvantages so they would need to have horrible cars, I just don't buy that.
But I have also read reports that Merc was involved from the very beginning when the rules for these engines were laid down. You can't deny that gave them an advantage and it smells like bad FIA politics. I'm sure a lot of backroom meetings and secret deals were involved...
The current order of engine performance is obvious but I don't think the differences are as big as some people might want us to believe.