Renault have a great deal to live up to this year as their boss Cyril Abtibeoul has run out of excuses, next year Daniel Ricciardo departs after a mega-buck two-year stint and Esteban Ocon cannot wait to get his career back on track after an 18 month forced layoff. The French team have underdelivered for the past decade, more often than not no match for their customer teams (Red Bull and more recently McLaren) and toil in the wrong end of the midfield where no works team should be. Nevertheless, for the sake of the sport, one hopes they have found the magic button and that the black and yellow cars challenge for podiums because Ricciardo and Ocon are more than capable. This is what they...
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