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2010 Belgian Grand Prix, Sunday
Robert Kubica, P3 Fastest lap: 1:49.807 Started race on option Pit stop: Lap 23, time in pits: 20.727 (prime) Pit stop: lap 35, time in pits: 27.933 (intermediate) Robert: This is a great result for the team after a weekend when we were competitive in every session, and we were racing with McLaren and Red Bull. Nobody was expecting us to be at this level in Spa, so I think we can be pleased with the work we have done. The conditions were very difficult at the start, and the track was (...)
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2010 Belgian Grand Prix, Saturday
FREE PRACTICE 3 Robert Kubica, R30-03, P5, 1:46.492, 17 laps Vitaly Petrov, R30-04, P12, 1:47.406, 15 laps QUALIFYING Robert Kubica, R30-03, P3, 1:46.100 Robert: We have been in the top five in every session, in all conditions, this weekend, and going into qualifying we were hoping that it might be possible to get third place. This is the first race at which we have used our f-duct and I must say congratulations to everybody at the factory because it has worked perfectly from the first (...)
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2010 Belgian Grand Prix, Friday
Robert Kubica, R30-03 Free Practice 1: P3, 2.02.081, 14 laps Free Practice 2: P4, 1:49.282, 20 laps Robert: It was quite a good Friday for us. The conditions in first practice were pretty bad, but our main aim was to check how the f-duct system was functioning on our car. We focused on getting experience of the system, for the engineers and for myself, and to get everything working properly - and we managed to do this in spite of running in the wet. In the second session, I ran every (...)
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Renault F1 Team announces SNORAS sponsorship
The Renault F1 Team today announced a significant new sponsorship agreement with Bank SNORAS, the Lithuanian retail bank. The ?SNORAS logo will appear on the sidepods of the Renault F1 R30, beginning with this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. Renault F1 Team Chairman Gerard Lopez commented: ?It is with great pleasure that we welcome Bank SNORAS to the Renault F1 Team. This new business win with Bank SNORAS adds a further dimension to our significant commercial efforts in (...)
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Renault F1 Team partners with EFG International
The Renault F1 Team today announced a partnership with EFG International, a global private banking group, for the remaining races of the 2010 season. The logo of EFG Bank (a private banking subsidiary of EFG International) will appear on the sidepods of the Renault F1 R30, starting at this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. Renault F1 Team Chairman Gerard Lopez commented: ?We are delighted to welcome EFG International to the Renault F1 Team's partner network for the (...)
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A ?typical Friday' at the track
Friday at a Grand Prix is always a hectic time, even though the end-of-day press release usually just talks about a ?normal Friday'. There's a massive amount of work to shoehorn into just three hours of track time. Tyre compounds need evaluating, data needs collecting, and the drivers must find a good set-up direction for the rest of the weekend. But what exactly does it all involve? To tackle these tasks, both Robert and Vitaly usually work together and pool their data to ensure the team (...)
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Robert Kubica: ?We want to get back to scoring regular points?
Spa is a unique circuit - what challenges does it present? Spa is quite different to all the other circuits we run at because, although we use lower downforce levels similar to Canada, this circuit has many more high-speed corners. That makes it tricky to balance the downforce level with getting good top speed, which you need because there are two very long sections at the start and end of the lap, where you spend a long time at full throttle. Often, this is a circuit that throws up some (...)
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Vitaly Petrov: ?Budapest was a weekend where everything came together?
Vitaly, let's look back to Budapest where you finished fifth, your best result in F1. You must have been very happy with your performance? It was a very satisfying weekend. We thought that we would be quick because our car works well on this sort of track. The car was easy to drive and I found a good balance with my engineers so that I could get the most from the car. It was a weekend where everything came together; we improved step-by-step; and I didn't make any mistakes. It was nice to (...)
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Eric Boullier: ?Ready to fight until the end of the season?
Eric, let's look back on Budapest where both R30s qualified in the top ten and showed good pace over the weekend. Were you satisfied with the performance of the car? It was very good to see the relative pace of the car and to see both drivers qualify in the top ten. However, the outcome of the race was a mixed one because we missed the chance to get both cars in the top six. Also, we are here to fight everyone and it's clear that Red Bull are still much quicker than us. So we know that we (...)
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Fans visit Enstone for MIA National Motorsport Week
The Renault F1 factory may have been in shutdown for the past couple of weeks, but some lucky fans had the chance to take a rare glimpse behind the scenes of Enstone as part of MIA National Motorsport Week. The MIA initiative is designed to bring the sport closer to the fans by providing insight into the world's most competitive forms of motor racing and the opportunities that exist in the motorsport industry. Almost 350 members of the public came along to the team's UK base at Enstone (...)
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