Despite the rain, Renault leaves Portimao confident

After an encouraging day yesterday, the team hoped to once again benefit from reasonable track conditions today to successfully carry out its program for this fourth and final day of work this week. But the track remained closed today due to poor weather conditions, forcing the teams to stay in the garage. Fernando Alonso therefore did not complete any laps today.

With just one day of work in proper conditions, Renault is now counting on more favorable weather for its upcoming test session at the Jerez circuit from February 10 to 13.

Fernando Alonso declared: « What a rain! It’s a shame not to have been able to run today especially because at this stage of the season, we are usually trying to optimize our track time. However, I am satisfied with the tests I was able to do yesterday in the dry; we learned a lot. I will be on track in Jerez for our next session and I hope we will make good progress with the car. »

Christian Silk, Chief Test Engineer added: « While we faced deplorable weather conditions, these tests remain encouraging. Our current focus is on the car’s reliability and safety features, and everything went very well in that regard.

We are disappointed not to have been able to benefit from better conditions to test our performance level, but we were still able to accumulate kilometers on our new package, and that’s already a good thing. We are now focusing on preparing for the next tests in Jerez next month in the hope that we can put the R29’s performance level to the test.

According to a statement from the Renault F1 Team