Renault will be racing in Valencia

The Renault F1 Team will ultimately be allowed to start the European Grand Prix in Valencia on Sunday. The decision was made by the FIA’s World Council, which met in Paris today, Monday.

Renault was suspended from a race following the Hungarian GP on July 26, after an incident involving Fernando Alonso’s car. The double world champion from Spain had lost a wheel shortly after leaving the pits. For the FIA, the Renault team allowed Alonso to leave the pits fully aware that the front right wheel was not properly secured…

To put things into context, the motorsport authorities were particularly tense during this weekend following the death of Henry Surtees, who was struck on the head by a wheel in F2 a few days earlier, and following the accident of Felipe Massa, who was injured in the face by a spring lost by a preceding Brawn GP.

Denouncing an excessive and unjust sanction, Renault had wished to appeal upon learning of the exclusion and was thus heard. Its penalty was reduced to a fine of 50,000 dollars.

Now that it is known that Renault will be at the start of the European Grand Prix, the question is who will fill the second seat alongside Alonso, following the dismissal of Piquet Jr. The French driver Romain Grosjean seems the most likely to take the wheel and make his debut in the top category.