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Renault set for more upgrades in Russia

Renault set for more upgrades in Russia

22-09-2018 16:15
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Jake Williams-Smith

Renault is set to introduce further updates to their R.S.18 as the team look to strengthen their position of fourth in the constructor standings. The French team are locked in battle with Haas who seem like their closest rivals to finishing best of the rest behind the big three teams in the championship.

Speaking ahead of the Russian Grand Prix, Renault team principal Cyril Abiteboul revealed that the team are still hard at work despite there being just six races remaining as Renault look to hold onto fourth and the vital prize money that comes with it.

"Singapore has confirmed once again how tight the competition is at the moment as well as the competitiveness of the top teams," Abiteboul is quoted by F1i.com. "Even at circuits we expect to play to our strengths.

"We left Singapore with a modicum of satisfaction. We were pleased to have been able to secure our first double points finish of the second half of the year.

"As a result, we were able to extend our slender advantage in fourth position in the constructors’ championship.

"We aim to keep this momentum going in Russia. We need to keep pushing in every area and take points when we can as we know our adversaries will do the same.

"We have some further upgrades and mechanical tweaks we hope to give some further stability," said Abiteboul when asked what Russia holds for the team.

Chassis technical director for the team Nick Chester elaborated on the specific updates that the team will be introducing in Sochi.

"We have floor updates for Sochi," he revealed. "This is an evolution from the update we saw in Spa and this should give us a small gain.

"We ran updated bargeboards and sidepod vanes in Singapore and they behaved as expected, so we will use these again in Russia. It was good to get a double-points finish; we’ve been due one for a while."