Renault have revealed their new car, with drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Jolyon Palmer taking the wraps of the R.S.17 at an unveiling ceremony in the UK on Tuesday. With it the team are targeting fifth place in the 2017 championship.
The yellow machine, built to comply with the radically revised 2017 regulations, is the second car produced since Renault’s return to F1 racing as a works squad, but the first for which they have overseen the entire design process.
They hope it will allow them to improve dramatically on the ninth place they achieved in last year’s constructors’ championship, when Palmer and then team mate Kevin Magnussen scored eight points.
“2017 will be a great year, a crucial year,” commented Jerome Stoll, Renault Sport Racing Chairman. “For the first time the car is developed by us and we expect to be fifth. We have the team, the drivers, the partners and the organisation.”
Renault’s technical chief Bob Bell predicted performance gains of around five percent relative to 2016, thanks in large part to the new technical rules, which have been designed to make 2017’s cars both faster and physically tougher to drive.
Also announced at the London event was the appointment of four-time world champion Alain Prost as a special advisor to the team.
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