Abiteboul: “We knew we were at risk in Bahrain”

Always in the eye of the storm Renault was not denied even in Bahrain in terms of breakdowns with the most classic of white smoke, fortunately now with the checkered flag waved, from Red Bull by Ricciardo.

Nonetheless, the most hated engine engineer of the moment, at least among the F1 teams, despite admitting the obvious problems, said he was confident and ready for the restart.

“We never wanted to see another breakdown, but on the positive side, Daniel was on the finish line – declared the general manager Cyril Abiteboul – Honestly, speaking for Sakhir, we had opted for a conservative setting, aware of the high risk of rupture, so what we achieved was the best possible."

“Reliability still represents our Achilles' heel, however we have three weeks ahead of us to recover and introduce permanent changes to the exhausts, as well as to start focusing on performance” – concluded the Frenchman.

Chiara Rainis