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Not only did he beat Ocon in a head-to-head qualifying battle, but he qualified higher than his team-mate a whopping fifteen times. Ricciardo reigned supreme in the qualifying battle. Scuderia Ferrari’s poor form was replaced with a strong performance from BWT-Racing Point Formula One Team.Īt one point, Renault had their hand on the third-place position but came the latter stages of the year, they couldn’t compete as much as they would have liked to, and McLaren F1 Team took home the coveted ‘best of the rest’ in third, with Racing Point also edging ahead in fourth.Ĭredit: Renault DP World F1 Team Qualifying Battle …And the Lowsĭespite having an impressive season, the team could only equal their 2019 Constructors’ Championship place with a fifth place finish. A huge improvement from the previous year and bodes well for the team going forward. I’m sure he was all smiles, as usual, after this year.Īs a team, Renault were able to walk away with points at all but one Grand Prix, with seven of those being double point finishes. His season has been very consistent, claiming points in fourteen of the races and battling in the top half of the grid. Ricciardo was so very close to claiming ‘best of the rest’ in the Drivers’ Championship but alas, he had to settle for a still impressive fifth spot. Ricciardo gained another third-place finish at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and Ocon got glory in a second-place finish at the Sakhir Grand Prix. But Renault didn’t stop there, they wanted more. Ricciardo broke this record with a third-place finish at the Eifel Grand Prix.
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It took over nine years for Renault to find themselves up there with the last podium for the side coming from Nick Heidfeld at the 2011 Malaysian Grand Prix. Undoubtably, the highs of the season for the team will be their multiple podiums. He was partnered alongside Daniel Ricciardo in his second year with the French team. Ocon had previously raced in F1 for BWT Racing Point Formula One Team but was dropped and replaced by Lance Stroll in 2018. Nico Hülkenberg was let go by the team and without a seat in F1. Renault decided to go in a different direction for their 2020 line up. The team found themselves in a tight midfield battle for third, gaining consistent points and even some podium glory. With another fifth-place finish in the Constructors’ Championship, it does not do justice to how well the team performed. But the Lotus battle would take place in the court rather than on the track.Ī lengthy legal battle between Group Lotus (the Lotus partnering with Renault) and Team Lotus (the Lotus outfit bought by the Malaysians) emerged, fighting for name rights and the use of the black and gold livery.Renault DP World F1 Team proved they still have the fire to fight for their place as one of the Formula 1 greats. The two teams had a long-standing battle of Lotus vs. The Lotus Racing, a Malaysian team, raced under a license owned by Lotus Cars' then Malaysian parent company, Proton.
Despite the classic blank and gold livery which paid hommage to Lotus' John Player Special colors in the 1980s, the car, both engine, and chassis, were actually still made by Renault, as reflected by the microscopic-sized Renault badge at the tip of the nose.įunnily enough, there was another team on the grid with the Lotus name. Renault scaled down their involvement in F1 to become only an engine supplier (again) in 2011, with Lotus Cars purchasing 25% of shares of the team and rebranding the team name under the British sports car maker.