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Horner happy to have Illien working with Renault
Mario Illien with Adrian Newey
Christian Horner has confirmed that Red Bull‘s V6 power unit supplier Renault is now working with engine guru Mario Illien.
As the French engine marque faltered at the start of the new ‘power unit' era, reports Renault had turned to Illien – one of the most famous engine specialists in all of motor sport – and his company Ilmor began to swirl.
Illien was then spotted in the Red Bull garage in Abu Dhabi.
'It is great that Renault are now working with Ilmor,' Horner, boss of Renault's works team Red Bull, is quoted by the French magazine Auto Hebdo.
'The company has been faced with similar problems in Indycar. Mario comes with a lot of...
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