Renault enter the 2017 season with Nico Hulkenberg spearheading their driver line-up, but the French team's managing director Cyril Abiteboul is playing down expectations ahead of the first preseason test in Barcelona later this month, but is optimistic they can reel in Mercedes. Abiteboul told F1i, '2017 will be more of a consolidation year. In Viry, the focus is much more on quality rather than quantity. We may actually reduce slightly the size of our operations. 'On the chassis side, we have recruited something like 100 people, so that is a growth of 20% of headcount, which is a lot. We are going to slow down a little bit the recruitment, make sure everyone is finding their feet.' 'I...
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