Daniel Ricciardo says the prospect of losing long-standing race engineer Simon Rennie at Red Bull was a key factor in deciding the Aussie to move from the Milton Keynes-based outfit to Renault. Ricciardo spent the first half of the 2018 season mulling his future, weighing extending his stay at Red Bull or moving on to a new challenge. The seven-time Grand Prix winner took many criteria into account before ultimately setting his choice on Renault. But Rennie's decision to travel less with the race team and accept a factory role at Milton Keynes was an important element to consider for Ricciardo who had worked alongside the race engineer since 2014. Hulkenberg growing impatient with...
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