After some pretty tough times in Formula 1 in recent years, you could forgive Renault for being a bit circumspect about its expectations for the season ahead. But instead, as teams put the finishing touches to their cars ahead of next week's launches, the mood is one of quiet confidence – of progress for the works team and (perhaps more crucially for those who want to see a proper battle at the front) a decent leap from its all-new engine that will power Red Bull. For Renault's F1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul, the power unit change is one that should eventually deliver it the scope to match Mercedes, and maybe even move ahead of it. "We have got to confirm the turnaround that we...
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