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What happened to Renault's qualifying party mode?

Renault chief Cyril Abiteboul trumpeted how his engineers would finally unleash a ‘party mode' for their six drivers to use in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix and I was curious to see what this would mean relative to Mercedes and Ferrari who can find anything up to a second per lap. From the start of the season, it was obvious that lack of a qualifying mode impacted the ability of Red Bull – the Renault benchmark team – to truly take the fight to their pace-setting rivals. Before the race weekend at Red Bull Ring, Abiteboul was bullish when he confirmed, 'We have a qualifying mode now. This applies to us and our customers. We were able to extract a bit more...
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