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No engine upgrade for Renault in 2020

Daniel Ricciardo Renault will carry the same engine specification through 2020 due to financial pressures, team boss Cyril Abiteboul has confirmed. With power unit specifications frozen for the season, this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix represented the first and last opportunity to introduce such upgrades. While Mercedes and Honda chose to do so, Renault and Ferrari have refrained. Abiteboul cited the financial downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, to which the freeze was a response, as the reason for the decision. “(There are) some trade-offs and also sacrifices we have made in order to manage a crisis that has been extremely severe,” explained the Renault F1 Team Managing...
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