Motorsport Week continues its mid-season review series with Renault, which has made further gains in its third year since returning to Formula 1 as a full works team. Renault has almost stuck to the plan it implemented upon its acquisition of the dilapidated Lotus squad at the end of 2015, improving from ninth to sixth last year, and now holding fourth at the midway point of 2018. It has yet to take the podium finish it initially targeted way back when, though that owes much to the chasm it faces to the leading three squad – signalling that it still has substantial ground to make up. That it has acquired the services of Daniel Ricciardo (his signing undoubtedly its greatest...
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