Renault F1 Enlarge Renault believes the changes to its power unit this year should put Red Bull in a position to race for victories at the end of the season after it achieved its pre-season objective of halving its power deficit to Mercedes. Red Bull won three races last year despite a sizeable gap in performance to the Mercedes power unit (10% according the Adrian Newey) but the victories only came at weekends when Mercedes had problems or made mistakes. The close season presented an opportunity for manufacturers to bring performance to their power units and Renault is confident it has met its target of cutting the gap to Mercedes in half. "We had a target to get on top of our gap,...
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