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On July 16, 1977 was run GP England. For F1, it was not a day more, because they happened in that race two major debuts: on the side of the pilots, was presented for the first time this ... Gilles Villeneuve, and which we will deal later. As far as equipment, quietly debuted the Renault RS01. The detail was that at the time, F1 was dominated by engines Ferrari V12 and Cosworth V8, both sucked and 3000 cc engine capacity, while the French car, driven by Jean Pierre Jabouille also galo, was equipped with a Engine V6 turbocomprimido, by rule, should have half of this cylinder, ie 1500 cc, which caused most of the builders look with disbelief the path chosen by the Regie. And the results until the end of that first year, seemed to give the reason for the skeptics in the four races that dispute, won 4 dropouts and achieving better starting position as a 10 th spot in Holland.
Already in 1978, the South American team salteó races in Argentina and Brazil, to begin the year in South Africa. And this was not a coincidence. The height above sea level that is the Kyalami circuit, had a significant advantage over normally aspirated engines. The classification tests were proof of this: Jabouille largó 6 th career and, although not able to finish, it became clear that he was telling ...
That year, in addition to South Africa, there were 8 dropouts more, and the best result was a fourth place at Watkins Glen in addition to 2 third places in classification tests on 2 of the fastest circuits: Osterreichring and Monza.
In 1979, with the novelty of the filing of a second car entrusted to Rene Arnoux, the reliability problems led to the incredible amount of 20 dropouts in the 14 races that were submitted (28 cars). But in that year, came the first Pole Position of the hands of Jabouille (Kyalami of course) and more importantly, nothing less than first victory in the French Grand Prix, where he also won the Arnoux Record Lap and only the incredible and Gilles Villeneuve remembered temerity to avoid the double white cars of yellow and black.
Perhaps from that moment, and taking into account that during the year achieved a total of 6 Poles and 2 records Vuelta, several motorists began to become more involved in the characteristics of turboprop engines.
From there ever been more competitive, winning 3 races in 1980 and 3 in 1981. In 1982 almost all teams have tip turbo technology. Ferrari and BMW (Brabham) were the most advanced. The year started so unbeatable with 2 wins by Alain Prost in the first 2 races, and only descoordinaciones within the team (Paul Ricard Arnoux desoyó orders to stop beating Prost) and reliability problems meant that the team lost possibilities crowned champion . Ironically, and also due to problems in the Ferrari champion Rosberg was a Williams Cosworth. For 1983, the whole world put Alain Prost again at the top on the list of candidates for the title and model RE40 seemed the ideal tool for the little French. So much so that after the Grand Prix of Austria, and missing just 4 runs, "Professor" led him to Piquet 14 points. But again, the championship is esfumó in the last race where Prost came with 2 points advantage over the Brazilian. And in the race, ironically at the Kyalami who had been so supportive when they had only turboprop, was the very turbo car Prost said enough, proclaiming bicampeón to Piquet.
Prost When asked who was responsible for the new setback, the French argued that the fragility of the engine had been decisive. The blow, appeared not to be assimilated by the directory of Regie since Prost was invited to leave the team, and from there began the debacle that led to the withdrawal of the team in late 1985. There were a total of 15 victories, 30 Poles and 17 records Position lap and although the lack of championship marked a failure at sports, technologically demonstrated that the path opened by Renault, it meant the future of F1, since from 1983 until 1988, all champions had a turbo engine to their backs, and only a ban on this technology since 1989, allowed the normally aspirated engines return to the scene protagonist.
V10 aspirate 3500/3000 cc
And it was precisely from 1989, when the waters were divided between the V8 and V12, Renault said this again with another technological perlite: a V10 that equipped the Williams of Boutsen and Patrese and that on the day of its debut in Brazil he led the race for a long time and the lap record with the Italian. In that first year, the car was the winner with Boutsen driving in Canada and Australia.
For 1990, the Williams Renault team was already taken into account as one of the few who could "arbitrate" in the battle between McLaren and Ferrari. However, the expectations could not be met because "only" been able to achieve 2 victories. For the following year, Renault began to put pressure on Williams to bring a French pilot and chose young revelation Jean Alesi, and although came to sign the contract, then left seduced by the charm of Ferrari, breaking the link with scandalously Williams. Contemporáneamente, after its abandonment in the GP of England, Nigel Mansell had decided to withdraw from F1, having failed to achieve the title, and so Frank Williams saw the opportunity to fill the void left by the move of trunco Alesi, making an offer impossible to refuse: it was, if this time, the last possibility of "Lion" to win the championship. The accepted ... Rather was wrong because, although in early 1991, the Williams FW14 Renault was not all that reliable a champion would have required, since half of the year onwards, became a real machine win and the only advantage he had Senna out at the beginning of the championship tournament kept outside for the Anglo-French team.
But 1992 was the year for Williams-Renault-Mansell. After 5 races, the English had made the 5 poles and had won the 5 races ... What more could ask for? At the end of the year, in addition to the championship for drivers Mansell, the team won the constructors' world and no less than 10 races of the 16 that made up the championship. Also, Williams got 15 Poles and 11 records back. Impressive. But that was only the beginning, because in 1993, Renault had returned to the load with the idea of having at last, a French pilot, being elected Alain Prost. Yes, the same as in the days of turbo French had failed to achieve the title, hold nothing less than the engine, was 10 years later at the controls of a car powered by a V10 engine Renault. And thanks in large part to that engine, was devoted champion, with 7 wins (plus 3 of his teammate Damon Hill), 13 Poles Position (plus 2 Hill) and 6 records back (10 in total).
Then came the year that Williams Renault had won the championship before empezarlo ... And finally lost. It was 1994, the year in which the best engine was on the best car, and it was driven by many (myself included) considered the race: Ayrton Senna-Williams-Renault, was proposed as one of the most successful alliances and therefore more antipáticas in the history of F1. It was only a matter of knowing in advance how many races were to enshrine world champions. However, the year did not begin well for the Brazilian who left in the first 2 races. This coupled with the 2 victories of the young Michael Schumacher Benetton Ford made that the success in San Marino was "mandatory". The third consecutive Pole Position on Ayrton sadly reminded that Williams FW16 Renault number 2, seemed to be the prelude to a recovery in sight to be exciting ... The events of May 1, 1994, were without a doubt one of the biggest blows he received the Williams team and the entire F1. Apart from the shock, for Williams, this led to much of the loss of that championship and the next at the hands of Michael Schumacher-Benetton. And for Renault meant the loss of the championship 1994, and the decision to motorizar from 1995 to the newly champion Schumacher and his Benetton, winning the championship 1995 with the latter and the incredible amount of 16 races (11 with Benetton and 5 with Williams) securing 16 Poles Positions (12 to Williams and 4 with Benetton) and 14 records Back (8 with Benetton and 6 with Williams).
The incredible continuity of successes continued in 1996 and 1997 with the finals of Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve, both with Williams Renault, where the team won 12 victories in 1996 and 9 in 1997.
If we briefly review the stage of motorization aspirated of V10 (1989-97), the world champion pilotó a car with the engine in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1997, that is 5 times against 3 Honda and 1 - Ford. As for the races, the 146 made, the engines victorious Renault crossed the finish line 75 times, against 29 Honda, while Ferrari won 19 victories as Ford, Mercedes Benz 3 and the remaining victory was Mugen Honda. As for the Poles Positions Renault made 85, Honda 38, Ferrari 14, with 7 and Hart Ford and Mercedes Benz with 1. As for the records back, 82 were for Renault, 20 for Honda and Ford, 19 Ferrari, 2 for Mercedes Benz and Judd and 1 for Peugeot. That means that the engines Renault won no less than 55.55% of the championships played, 51.36% of the races, 58.21% of Poles Positions and 56.16% of the records back in the game, competing against Ferrari, Honda , Mercedes Benz and Ford, among others.
The 2002 marks the return in the first person Renault to F1. But this time, not only as a driver, but also as a chassis builder hosting its own engine. A challenging season, even more if one takes into account the technical option chosen. An angle bench in clear break with the trend in vogue and a path fraught with problems to solve alone. However, Renault is positioned just below the three great dominant brands in recent times within F1. 4 seventh and an adventure that will thrill ahead to the 2003 season.
2003 has been an excellent year for Renault. In the first five Grands Prix, Alonso had climbed the podium in three of them (two in a row) and had made his first pole at the Malaysian Grand Prix. The year of continued wonders for the team galo. Jarno Trulli, the other pilot Renault, and climbed up to the podium after a tiring German Grand Prix, having fought most of the race with the Ferrari of Michael Schumacher. Finally, in the Hungarian Grand Prix, after another pole by Alonso, the Asturian and climbed up to the top of the podium as giving the youngest to win a race in Formula 1, and the first harvest in Spanish that achievement. In 2004, and Renault will be among the teams leaders and seek victories in all circuits with its new and beautiful R24. In 2005 expect to make the assault World Championships.
With a different engine (the draft was abandoned Va. 111 °) and an aerodynamic that developed the concepts expressed in 2003, the Renault team started as a clear favorite to challenge the dominance of Ferrari in F1. Soon it became apparent that the car 2004 did not enjoy the same benefits of stability as the 2003 and the difficulty of driving age. That if, the engine was more powerful and during much of the season was second in the table of the classification of builders. Finally, after deciding Briatore should not be more work on the R24 and had to be addressed and the draft 2005, the French team having been overtaken by BAR team for second place in the championship. However, Renault was one of the brands that last year `may show a victory. It was Trulli, in the delineation of Monte Carlo.
In 2005 the brand reaches its ultimate dream. The model R25 displays all his qualities and from the private winter workouts. Along with a level of very impressive performance, the car's brand Rombo reaches an exceptional level of reliability. With these assumptions, his star driver, Fernando Alonso, has everything needed to demonstrate their ability and confirm the voices that spoke of him as a true champion in power. Despite having to deal with three changes of engine in three consecutive years, the team will not be affected and their work can be considered as exemplary. Its main rival in this season, McLaren, failed in the area of reliability leading to that Renault could gain an advantage remarkable sobré the English team that he would run on the defensive the rest of the season. Ensuring each outcome, mind cold equipment and pilot doblegaron the MP4/20 McLaren since mid-season had reached a performance level even higher than R25.
After the conquest of the two World titles at stake, Renault abandoned its tactic of securing the points for fighting in front of McLaren and his pilot better situated, namely Kimi Raikkonen. The result was a landslide victory for Renault and alonso in the last event of 2005 held in China. The voices that have called into question the justice of the titles that were made before the mute demonstration of champions.
For 2006, the premises have changed a little. The regulatory returns to the denostados changing tires in the race, in a clear willingness to favor Bridgestone and Ferrari. The excuse is the vaunted security. However, winter testing showed that the speed and reliability of the R26 Renault are almost on a par with the celebrated R25.
If good was the 2005 season, the 2006 season has been equally successful. The French team renewed their titles conquered the previous season with a little more difficulty with some numbers but even more brilliant than in 2006. Renault certainly has been the most efficient team in the last two years with record surpassing other teams most powerful economic and sport.
After getting the title in two consecutive world championships, the team's Rombo suffered in 2007 to be at the top of your career. The departure of Alonso's team and little knowledge of the new Bridgestone tires replacing the Michelin used until 2006, could be the cause of a performance well below the previous year and waited for this. Finally, the team was placed in third place in the championship thanks to the disqualification of McLaren.
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