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Renault 2016 F1 engine much improved thanks to Ilmor

  Renault tripped themselves up this year in the rush to improve their troubled Formula One power unit but 2016 should be much better with the added assistance of Ilmor engineering, operations director Remi Taffin said on Wednesday. Reviewing the French engine manufacturer's season, their last before returning as a constructor after taking over Lotus, Taffin said the first test of 2015 had revealed the extent of the problems. 'We genuinely thought we had done a good job,' he told the Renault Sport F1 website. 'It was the case in certain areas, but we were caught out in three principal ways.' Taffin listed them as a significant reliability problem with the pistons, a malfunctioning...
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