Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] Renault gives up on wide-angled V10

Source: 
grandprix.com
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns11225.html
Renault Sport has announced that it will be building a conventional V10
engine next year. This marks the end of the company's disastrous foray
into developing a wide-angle V10 engine and puts the team well behind it
rivals in terms of developing the latest V10 technology. It had been
thought that Renault would simply get on with the engine rather than
drawing attention to the failure of the previous policy and it was hoped
that the announcement - the full public spotlight as F1 gears up for
Monaco - would be a major announcement of a new engine chief at
Viry-Chatillon. This has not happened and one can only wonder what
Renault's PR machine is trying to achieve.
The technical management of the new engine will be based on the existing
structure with the new project being headed by Leon Taillieu. The
organisation says that the new engine will be ready in the middle of
January 2004 and given that previous Renault publicity said that building
a new engine from new takes 18 months, one must assume that the work on
the new engine has been going on for some time.
"Our objective," team boss Flavio Briatore is quoted as saying, "is to
design an engine that can respond to the demands of the new regulations,
imposing one engine per race weekend, while at the same time maintaining
our performance targets. Basically, this will be a high-performance
engine, reliable for practice and the race. In order to guarantee
reliability it will have a "traditional" architecture, but without any
increase in weight. It will have a high level of performance because it
will benefit significantly from the technological solutions that
Viry-Chatillon has developed over the past three years. Far from this
being a step backwards, however, the innovative expertise of Viry means
we will be able to develop a one-weekend engine (750 km) with weight and
performance equal to those of an engine lasting half the distance. Whilst
the centre of gravity height of the engine is an important factor, the
integration of whole chassis, engine and gearbox package in order to
achieve a balanced, stiff package combined with both low mass and low
centre of gravity is of greater importance. The new engine configuration
for 2004 will not hinder us in this respect. The key part of our strategy
is to achieve complete integration of chassis and engine. The new engine
will answer a precise brief and "wish-list" from the Enstone team headed
by Mike Gascoyne. The engine and chassis teams will develop the overall
package step-by-step in total synergy. We have implanted at Enstone a
small engine branch, Engine Development UK (ex-TWR), which will be
managed by Viry Project Manager Pascal Tribotte".
It remains to be seen whether this will be a significant enough step to
convince Gascoyne to stay at Renault for two more years or whether he
will now look at accepting an offer to join Toyota, which is rumoured to
be offering him a huge salary to design chassis in Cologne.
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 be offering him a huge salary to design chassis in Cologne.
Quindi alla Toyota stanno già scaricando Brunner ?
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