Why Renault selling its F1 team looks inevitable
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Published 2024-08-05
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If Renaultās really not planning to sell its F1 team why is it doing everything an owner thatās about to sell would do?
Renault looks increasingly likely to kill its F1 engine programme as its Alpine team focuses on closing a Mercedes customer deal instead.
Itās still a work in progress but the bottom line is that Renault willingly forfeiting full works team status is now a matter of when, not if.
And that suggests the chain of events set in motion by dealmaker extraordinaire Flavio Briatore points to an inevitable sale of F1's most chaotic team.
00:00 Briatore is the beginning of the end
01:38 So... what's the strategy?
03:49 All signs point to selling
07:04 Another team boss change
08:42 Who is really in charge?
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Renault owns an F1 team that doesnāt even know what it is doing. Renault owns a high performance brand called Alpine that regular people do not even buy that much. What can be a more effective French way to do thingsš.
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Renault went from championships to doing a bootleg version of the whole Ford/Jaguar drama from the 2000s in less than 20 years
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So...The Belgium round is the final boss for Renault team principals
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HAAS can be the worst team over a 5 year period, Audi can put one foot in and one foot out, and Renault can hire a guy that was banned for life in order to help sell the team, yet Formula 1 don't think that Andretti Racing would be a positive for the sport.
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Renault have been in n out more times than my cat
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They should just sell it and put more into there WEC program. A way better series then F1 at the moment. Be cool to see the race cover other series then just F1.
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plot twist: Andretti hired Briattore to bring down Renault from the inside. Briattore the Trojan Horse. F-ing geniusš
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Sad to see what was once F1ās dominant force exit the sport on such a whimper. To go from supplying 4 teams and 3 of them winning races in 2012 to the sorry state they are now is shameful. You get out what you put in, and the Renault hierarchy hasnāt done that for the last 10 years.
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They literally had the chance to snatch an engine side genius in Binotto but didn't make the move for the entire past 2 years and eventually let him go to audi.
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āPromotion of Alpine brandā by using Mercedes engine is the best branding move
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improve Alpine's brand by using a competitor's engines...seems very strange marketing strategy
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Andretti Cadillac has entered the chat
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Andretti is not going to buy Alpine, they aren't spending 100 of millions on facilities/assets/ and engineers that they do not want. Nor is another team like Toyota. Alpine will never get a good enough price to sell the team.
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Itās kinda sad my father this from France back in the day used to work for mecacheome in 2002-2003 and how it was one of the best jobs in Motorsports heās every had š¢
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1:55 "Alpine brand" is a joke in itself. A brand with 1 model, FCS!
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Not for sale, not for sale, not for sale, SOLD!
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And the FOM doesn't want Andretti because they have such great teams like this?
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F1 has said a difference between when Haas was allowed to join the grid as an upstart 11th team, compared to it saying no to Andretti, was that the grid wasnt as stable than as it is now. At that point one of the teams was Manor, which was on the brink of closing and did a few years after Haas joined. When you see things like what are happening with Alpine, the on-and-off rumors of Red Bull wanting to sell RB, and the way Audi's Sauber takeover is already plagued with problems ā it's hard to whole-heartedly say that the stability of the grid is anymore certain than it was when Haas joined. Just another sign of the F1-owners hypocritical approach toward Andretti.
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Canāt wait for Renault to do this, then sell the team in a few years, then come back as an engine supplier, then buy back their same team again but not supply it engines, then be a works team, then idk become champions again?
