Renault sensationally signed Daniel Ricciardo to join Nico Hulkenberg at Renault for this season, the Red Bull driver no doubt enticed by the French team's plans for the future but after 12 races in yellow and black the Australian has not achieved the expected results. It was always going to be a tough call: stay at Red Bull and play second fiddle to Max Verstappen, or move to Renault to spearhead a team with a winning pedigree, albeit over a decade ago, and packed with ambition. But predictions by team boss Cyril Abiteboul that podiums are on the cards this year, his backroom team have produced a below-par chassis, they trail customer team McLaren and are anything between 0.8 of a second...
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