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Renault: ‘We pulled the rug out from under our own feet’

 XPB Images Renault Sport F1’s Remi Taffin says the French manufacturer’s tough 2015 campaign was of its own making, as the director of operations lists three main reasons to explain Viry’s struggles. Renault entered the second season of the new 1.6-litre V6 turbocharged era hoping to build on the encouraging recovery signs it had shown last year. Instead, it immediately found itself on the back foot, with supplied teams Red Bull and Toro Rosso being hampered by reliability and performance woes. “We arrived at the first winter test believing that we had made a big step forward between seasons,” Taffin said. “We genuinely thought that we had done a good job. It was...
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