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Renault to downsize F1 engine operation
11th June 2008
Renault Sport is to reduce the size of its Formula One engine development operation at Viry-Chattilon in the southern suburbs of Paris.
A report in the French newspaper Le Canard Enchaine said that Renault will embark on a "reorganisation plan" that will effectively halve the size of the facility, and include drastic reductions in staff levels.
Speaking at last weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix the Renault F1 team engineering director Pat Symonds ascribed the cutback to the freeze on F1 engine development that was introduced at the beginning of 2007. Symonds said, "I think that something we are very conscious of at Renault is working efficiently and making the most of the rules as they stand and the budgets that we have. Budgets are not a bottomless pit, far from it.
"With the engine freeze it would be very nice if the budget was a bottomless pit as you could keep everyone employed and you could keep working on blue-sky research for the day when the freeze comes off. That is not the way we work at Renault."
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