Renault Apologises To Red Bull

Renault Sport F1, engine supplier to Red Bull, Lotus, Williams and Caterham, has apologised for two alternator failures over the Grand Prix weekend at Monza in Italy. Both struck the car of German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel. And both were identical problems to the one which removed Vettel from the lead of the European Grand Prix in Valencia in June.
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The French company says in a statement: 'This weekend has not been acceptable from either a performance or reliability point of view. We have to apologise to Red Bull for the two failures on Sebastian's car. In both cases the alternator failed. We introduced a new spec’ of alternator following the problems in Valencia and believed this would overcome the issues.'

'We are still looking into why the part failed again here but we do know that, even though the alternator was being operated entirely within the prescribed range, the part itself overheated and shut off the power supply. This is a priority between ourselves and our suppliers and we have to ensure we are fully on top of the problem before Singapore.’

Renault Sport F1 also took full responsibility for a KERS failure on the Lotus E20 car, driven by Belgian driver Jerome d’Ambrosio, who replaced Frenchman Romain Grosjean at Monza.

‘Clearly these types of issues should not happen and we will work tirelessly between ourselves and our suppliers to be back on form in all areas in Singapore and for the rest of the season,’ the Renault communiqué concludes.



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