Experienced Formula 1 engineer Pat Fry is to join Renault in 2020. Fry, 55, who is a former Ferrari technical director, is on gardening leave having left McLaren this year. Renault have employed him in a role yet to be revealed as they strengthen their engineering department in their bid to become a race-winning team by 2021. It is their second staff change this week, following the return of Dirk de Beer to his previous role of head of aerodynamics after five years away. De Beer, who has worked for Ferrari and Williams since leaving what was then known as Lotus in 2013, replaces Peter Machin, who is leaving the team "by mutual agreement" following a season in which Renault have...
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