43 Facts About Renault F1 Team

French automotive manufacturer Renault has been associated with Formula One as both team owner and engine manufacturer for various periods since 1977.

Renault F1 Team entered the last five races of 1977 with Jean-Pierre Jabouille in its only car.

Renault F1 Team had a poor start but ran as high as sixth before the suspension failed on lap 40.

Renault F1 Team ran outside the top 10 until his engine failed on lap 24, continuing their awful run of reliability.

Renault F1 Team did not enter the first two races of 1978, in Argentina and Brazil, but returned for the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami.

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Renault F1 Team dropped out of the points early in the race before retiring with electrical problems on lap 39.

Renault F1 Team was twelfth in qualifying for the team's first Monaco Grand Prix, and gave the team their first finish in Formula One, finishing in tenth place four laps down on race-winner Tyrrell's Patrick Depailler.

Renault F1 Team subsequently joined McLaren, while Cheever left to join Alfa Romeo.

On 16 March 2000, Renault F1 Team purchased Benetton Formula Limited for $120 million, to return to Formula One.

The history of the team acquired by Renault started in 1981 as the Toleman Motorsport team, based in Witney, Oxfordshire, England.

Renault F1 Team continued to use the Benetton constructor name for the 2000 and the 2001 seasons, with the Renault F1 Team name returning in 2001 as an engine brand.

Renault F1 Team's replacement was Spain's Fernando Alonso, who had been considered impressive as a test driver the previous year.

Alonso won the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix, the first time Renault F1 Team had won a Grand Prix since the 1983 Austrian Grand Prix.

Renault F1 Team was innovative during this period producing non-standard designs such as the 111° 10-cylinder engine for the 2003 RS23 which was designed to effectively lower the centre of gravity of the engine and thus improve the car's handling.

Trulli won the Monaco Grand Prix, but his relationship with Renault deteriorated after he was consistently off the pace in the latter half of the year, and made claims of favouritism in the team towards Alonso.

Renault F1 Team subsequently announced he was joining Toyota for the following year and in fact left Renault early, driving the Toyota in the last two races of the 2004 season.

However, Villeneuve – away from F1 racing for almost an entire season and struggling to acclimatise quickly to racing at the premier level – did not impress, and the team finished third behind Villeneuve's former team BAR.

Renault F1 Team took advantage of a rain-affected qualifying session to win the first race of the season, the Australian Grand Prix.

Renault F1 Team celebrated its 200th Grand Prix at Silverstone, which was won by Alonso.

At the French Grand Prix, Renault F1 Team was expected to be faster than Ferrari, but Ferrari again had the advantage.

The FIA announced its intention to appeal that decision and Renault F1 Team announced they would not race with the system for fear of retrospective punishment if the appeal was upheld.

On 16 October 2006, Renault F1 Team announced that the Dutch banking giant ING would replace Mild Seven as title sponsor for three years starting in 2007.

Renault F1 Team confirmed Giancarlo Fisichella and Heikki Kovalainen as their race drivers for 2007 with Nelson Piquet Jr.

Renault F1 Team struggled in comparison to their form in previous seasons in Australia, with Giancarlo Fisichella finishing the race in 5th place.

Renault F1 Team underlined their return to the front at the subsequent Japanese Grand Prix, in which Alonso steered clear of Lewis Hamilton's first-corner mistake to record another win.

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The Renault F1 Team R28 was believed by many insiders to have overtaken BMW Sauber by season's end as the closest challenger to the domination of the sport by Ferrari and McLaren.

Renault F1 Team entered the season with high hopes of challenging both world titles.

Renault F1 Team had been suspended for one race due to the incident involving Fernando Alonso's wheel not being fitted properly in the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix this has been overturned on appeal following a decision from the FIA on 17 August 2009.

Renault F1 Team was replaced by test driver Romain Grosjean as of the European Grand Prix.

FIA stated that Renault F1 Team would have likely been thrown out of Formula One if it had not taken swift action in pushing out Briatore and Symonds.

In 2010, Renault sold a majority stake in the team to Genii Capital, a Luxembourg based investment company.

Rumours had tipped 2007 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen to replace Petrov for 2011, but the Finn angrily rejected claims he would join the team, stating that he was upset Renault was using his name for their image and that their actions meant he would not race for them.

On 3 December 2015, Renault announced that they had purchased the Lotus F1 Team and were preparing for the 2016 season with further information to be released in early 2016.

In Belgium, Renault F1 Team finished 4th and 5th, scoring 23 points in one single race, their most in any race ever as a constructor and their first fastest lap for a decade.

That year, Renault began supplying engines to the Ligier team, which scored three points in 1984, an improvement over not being classified in the 1983 championship.

The Williams-Renault F1 Team combination scored its first victory at the wet 1989 Canadian Grand Prix, with Thierry Boutsen, and finished their initial season together with Boutsen winning the very wet 1989 Australian Grand Prix.

Williams had signs of promise for the next 2 years and by 1992, with the aid of active suspension and better engines, the Williams-Renault F1 Team was a World Championship-winning car, winning over half of the races during the season, as its driver Nigel Mansell won the drivers' title.

In 1995 engine regulations reduced maximum engine displacement to three litres, with Renault F1 Team adapting the RS7, making it lighter and featuring a fly-by-wire throttle.

Renault F1 Team continued working with Mecachrome, which paid for development of the engines, and supplied them to Williams under the Mecachrome name.

Renault Sport F1 continued to supply engines to their former works team and Red Bull, and expanded their customers to Lotus Racing at the end of 2010.

Renault F1 Team then resumed his podium run, with the exception of one retirement, until the end of the season, while Webber finished behind until the final two races.

That year, Williams returned to its association with Renault F1 Team, signing a deal to receive the RS27 engines until the end of 2013.

Renault F1 Team introduced revised components and more software upgrades trying to reduce the gap with rivals.