Though, despite retiring within moments of one another in Bahrain, thereby prompting the safety car that preserved Charles Leclerc's podium position, Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg were classified as finishers, the fact is that from 6 starts this season the yellow and black cars have only made it to the end of the race on 2 occasions. Despite introducing a new-spec MGU-K for China, the component given to all Renault-powered drivers, Nico Hulkenberg's retirement yesterday was related to the MGU-K. Nico retired with an MGU-K related problem that we will investigate further after this weekend,' said Cyril Abiteboul. 'We will look at the weekend as a whole and our focus switches to the...
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