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Renault, the future team of Alonso, improves compared to 2019

José Carlos Carabias

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The week has been fruitful in news in Formula 1. And the main one, one of the news of the year in the sports sector, is the return of Fernando Alonso to F1 with Renault. Hence the analysis is carried out with a magnifying glass from Spain, wishing the hobby that the Asturian find in 2021 a car at the height of its cache.

The French car has improved compared to 2019. Last year it was a very slow racing car in qualifying that evolved on Sunday. His best position was a fourth place for the Australian Ricciardo in Italy, except in a season in which he was the fifth best team in the World Cup.

In this atypical start of 2020 Renault adds two eighth places and two abandonments, with Ricciardo and Ocon. But the car offers signs of evolution, such as Ocon’s fifth place on the grid or the Frenchman’s podium chances in the first race. The car now fights with McLaren, Racing Point and Ferrari for being the third team.

Precisely on Sunday, Renault filed a protest against the Racing Point piloted by the Mexican Sergio Pérez and the Canadian Lance Stroll, for consider it to be a copy of last year’s Mercedes.

In the Austrian region of Styria, it returned to normal. Lewis Hamilton claimed victory, the first of the year, number 85 in fourteen season sports life in Formula 1. Only the now badly injured Michael Schumacher has won more times than he (91). Although, by far, the British has the best percentage among the best drivers in history. Win 33.47 percent of the grand prizes he disputes. One in three for fourteen years. Imperial.

Hamilton ended with the sour gesture in the first race of 2020, also at the Austrian Red Bull Ring. Fourth, very far from its natural place. But on Saturday, in the middle of a heavy rain, the Englishman already suggested with the pole that he would return to the top. Yesterday he won by whistling, unopposed from minute one.

«It’s great to get back on the podium and at this level. The team made an excellent strategy. I am grateful for the great work of the team. It’s been a long time since the last race last year (Abu Dhabi, his latest success). It is a good step forward, “said the Englishman, who celebrated with his fist held high and wearing black overalls, a symbol of his fight against racism. A robot presented him with the prize as the winner of the race, cold and unexciting detail of F1.

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