While Nico Hulkenberg has consistently qualified 'best of the rest', and is currently joint-sixth in the driver standings ahead of Max Verstappen, Renault is fifth in the team standings behind two of the customer teams it supplies, Red Bull and McLaren. Furthermore, the works outfit is regularly over a second off the pace of the Red Bull. Technical director Bob Bell admits his, and the team's, disappointment. 'I would say we are disappointed we are not further up,' he said, according to N. 'We had hoped to take a bit more lap time out of the top three teams over the winter and we haven't. If anything they might have moved further ahead, so we are a little bit disappointed about that. 'I...
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