Interview – Fernando Alonso

An interview with Fernando Alonso, Renault. 
Q: Fernando, you have traded a competitive car for an environment that is dear to your heart. With only days to go until the Melbourne race, what thoughts are crossing your mind?
Fernando Alonso: It was a difficult season last year, but the car was competitive and I was able to [...]

Kovalainen is Hamilton team mate

“We are partners”
Heikki Kovalainen secure the golden seat in F1 as he is confirmed by McLaren for the 2008 season.  Kovalainen outshined 2007 team mate Fisichella by scoring 30 points for Renault from the total of 51.  McLaren decision will left Spaniard Pedro del Rosa remain as third driver, while Gary Paffet will assit the team’s testing programme [...]

Alonso to drive Renault

Alonso back to Renault 
Fernando Alonso will race for Renault next season alongside Nelson Piquet Jr, it was confirmed on Monday 10 December 2007.  The move is more or less expected thanks to the infamous experience in year 2007 with McLaren.
Renault will field with all new line up for the next season and leaves Giancarlo Fisichella [...]

Renault escape fine over McLaren data

Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone
Source: http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2007/12/7157.html
The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has imposed no penalty on Renault after finding the team in breach of the International Sporting Code for possessing confidential technical information belonging to McLaren.
Prior to Thursday’s hearing in Monaco, Renault had already admitted that data had entered their factory via a former [...]

Renault did gain advantage – Claim McLaren

Over thirty file stored in several old styled floppy disks was loaded onto Renault’s computer system and that those files contained more than 780 technical drawings of the 2006 and 2007 McLaren cars.
On the early report, Renault admit the possession but denied use of McLaren Data.  However they need to answer the charges to World [...]

Michael Schumacher still the fastest

Catch me if you can… 
Day two Barcelona, Schumacher still on top.  This make me think that he could probably make a come back, who knows?? Anyway, Schumacher topped the sheet, this time four-tenths quicker that the next fastest driver, Pedro de la Rosa.
Felipe Massa can only manage a solid fourth behind the Renault driver Heikki Kovalainen, who [...]

Renault admit possession

Renault admit the possession on McLaren, but denied use of McLaren Data.
On the 6th September 2007, an engineer (Mr Phil Mackereth) who joined the Renault from McLaren in Sept 2006 had brought with him some information that was considered to be proprietary to McLaren. This information was contained on old style floppy discs and included [...]

Spy again, this time Renault on McLaren

 
100 million, what is the first thing comes to my mind, the spying charges that McLaren has to pay for…
Who’s next on the list? Renault F1 team.. 
In a statement released Thursday, 8 November 2007, the FIA confirmed: “The team representatives have been called to answer a charge that between September 2006 and October 2007, in breach [...]