After Renault fired Piquet Jnr for his poor driving in 2009, he told the FIA (the organisation that run the Formula 1 World Championship) that Flavio Briatore, the boss of the Renault F1 Team (who had been the team manager for 20 years, and had cheated previously) had told him over the radio to crash his car deliberately, in order to bring the safety car out and give Alonso a better chance. This allowed Fernando Alonso, who was in 15th place to pass the slower less experienced drivers around him. This closed the gaps between the cars, meaning they were now racing very close together. However, Nelson Piquet Jnr, who drove for Renualt throughout the 2008 season told the media that the team had made him cheat in a race in order to help Alonso win.Īt the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix (the first ever Grand Prix to be held at night) Nelson Piquet Jnr lost control of his car at the outside of Turn 17, sliding across the road and smashing into a wall, throwing lots of debris across the road, meaning the Safety Car had to be called out to lead the cars through the track slowly to protect the marshalls cleaning the road. At the end of the 2008 season the team saw a brief return to the podium spots, with Fernando Alonso winning 2 of the last 4 races. The teams lowest point so far was in late 2009. They repeated their success in the following year. Their first championship as a builder was achieved in 2005 the same year that they won their first drivers' championship with former test driver Fernando Alonso. Renault returned to the job of being a builder in 2001 by taking over the Benetton team, which was renamed Renault in 2002. Renault engines powered drivers such as Nigel Mansall, Damon Hill, Jacque Villeneuve and Michael Schumacer to the Drivers World Championship. Although the Renault team won races and competed for world titles, it was as a supplier of engines to the Benetton and Williams teams in the 1990s that Renault first tasted world championship success. Renault introduced the turbo engine to Formula One when they debuted their first car, the Renault RS01 at Silverstone in 1977. Since then Renault has competed in Formula One as an engine supplier and as a car builder from the late 1970s to 2021, with many breaks. Ferenc Szisz won the first French Grand Prix at the wheel of a Renault. In December of 2010, Renault sold their remaining part of the Formula One team. Renault F1 was a Formula One racing team owned by the Renault company.
Fernando Alonso driving for Renault F1 in 2009.
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