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Renault prefer F1 ‘partner' to customer teams

Cyril Abiteboul insists that if Renault are to supply other F1 teams with engines in future, they must become a “partner” rather than a customer. With McLaren switching to Mercedes engines next year, Renault will only be powering their own works team which is being rebranded as Alpine. Team boss Abiteboul is happy that Renault can focus only on themselves for now but says that if an opportunity comes along to align properly with a rival in the future, he would embrace it. “It has to be more of a partner team than a customer team,” said Abiteboul, quoted by Motorsport.com. “A customer brings you nothing. A partner maybe can bring you some value, the value being in particular that...
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