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Renault keeps faith in academy for future F1 talent
Renault Sport F1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul has issued a call for patience after repeating the French manufacturer’s aim of producing a future Formula 1 world champion from its academy. Two years on from taking control of the Lotus F1 team, Renault is yet to promote a driver from its junior programme into an F1 race seat having opted to take Carlos Sainz Jr on loan from Red Bull for the 2018 season alongside Nico Hulkenberg who was signed from Force India last year. Both Sergey Sirotkin and Robert Kubica were the part of the Renault fold in 2017, with the Russian acting as F1 development driver last year, but the pair have switched to Williams with Sirotkin set for his F1 debut...
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