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Renault: We're not here to make friends
While refusing to confirm or deny that former FIA technical chief Marcin Budkowski is heading to Enstone, Cyril Abiteboul's barely supressed grin while speaking in Malaysia told you all you need to know. Rival teams are up in arms at the proposed move, fearing that Budkowski will take vital information to Renault, not only relating to their current cars but to ideas in the pipeline for 2018 and beyond. As the teams lobby for the Pole's gardening leave to be extended from the proposed three months to a year, in the hope that most of what he knows will be common knowledge by then, Christian Horner summed it up best when he said: 'He was only in our factory two weeks ago'. Amidst the outcry...
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