Despite knowing that success comes to teams who build their package around a star driver, Renault returned to Formula 1 as a works outfit this season with a rookie and a driver who has yet to fully prove himself at the pinnacle of the sport. Renault team principal Frederic Vasseur said in an interview, 'If you look at the success stories of the past, success was always built around a driver: [Michael] Schumacher and Ferrari, [Sebastian] Vettel and Red Bull, Lewis [Hamilton] and Mercedes, and also [Fernando] Alonso and Renault in the past.' 'The driver is important. A driver is not only about performance, but about being capable of leading a team. Right now we have more or less a thousand...
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