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Illien: Catching Mercedes and Ferrari will take longer than a year

Engine guru Mario Illien thinks Renault may begin to show clear progress with its Formula 1 power unit early in 2016, but believes that reeling in pace setters Mercedes and Ferrari is unlikely to happen this season. The Swiss, and his company Ilmor, have been drafted in after the French carmaker struggled in the first two years of the new ‘power unit' era. However, Renault only decided to stay in F1 for this year in December, leaving precious little time to immediately improve the engine for its new works team and customer Red Bull. 'With the 32 tokens you can change quite a lot,' Illien told Auto Motor und Sport, 'but time will not allow it. We need to see, together with Renault,...
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