Renault has lost McLaren as a customer team and that means that next year they will only supply their own factory team with engines. The French manufacturer is open to new collaborations in Formula 1, but this should be a serious added value. Cyril Abiteboul talks about a partner team instead of a customer team. "A customer brings you nothing. A partner maybe can bring you some value, the value being in particular that it can help you in reaching a sporting objective or business objective," explains Renault's team boss to Motorsport.com. "We know that the [financial] transaction is regulated anyway, so it's mainly from a sporting and technical perspective that we would...
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