Renault is seeking a fresh customer supply deal with Red Bull for 2017, sources have revealed, amid hopes that it can get the situation sorted as early as the end of this month. After the long-standing partnership between the manufacturer and team nearly collapsed last year, the two parties were forced to continue for this season after Red Bull failed to secure an alternative engine deal with Mercedes, Ferrari or Honda. That contract, which allows Red Bull to rebrand the engines as TAG Heuer, finishes at the end of this year – and it had been previously been thought that Renault would want to focus on its work team rather than have a customer base. However, sources with good knowledge of...
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