What is the significance of the agreement to supply Red Bull with engines for 2007?
The agreement has two immediate benefits: firstly, it strengthens Renaults presence in the sport, and secondly it partly compensates the reduced development activity that we will see under the homologation rules. Supplying twice the number of engines presents our partners and suppliers with additional challenges, which they have responded to with their usual professionalism and expertise. Our priority now is to kick off the new relationship smoothly and to maximise the advantages it brings until the start of the season, notably in terms of additional pre-season mileage to achieve our reliability targets for Melbourne. What will the development programme for the RS27 engine look like? Clearly, the development programme is much reduced relative to previous years. The regulations do not permit any development within the sealed perimeter of the engine for the duration of the current season, and following years. That naturally restricts our work to optimising how we use the engine in the ca
