Briatore announces change of engine architecture!
By role May 27 2003
Renault F1 Managing Director, Flavio Briatore, announced today the decission of Renault to return to a clasical engine architecture. This will see the change from a wide angle engine to a traditional 90º engine.
By role May 27 2003
Renault F1 Managing Director, Flavio Briatore, announced today the decission of Renault to return to a clasical engine architecture. This will see the change from a wide angle engine to a traditional 90º engine.
Flavio Briatore explained the time schedule of the 2004 engine, that is expected to be finished by mid-January 2004:
“The key part of our strategy is to achieve complete integration of chassis and engine.”, Briatore said, “The new engine will answer a precise brief and ‘wish-list’ from the Enstone team headed by Mike Gascoyne. The engine and chassis teams will develop the overall package step-by-step in total synergy. We have implanted at Enstone a small engine branch, Engine Development UK (ex-TWR), which will be managed by Viry Project Manager Pascal Tribotte.”
The main reason for the change in the architecture of the engine seems to be the new rules of one engine per weekend:
“In order to guarantee reliability, it will have a ‘traditional’ architecture, but without any increase in weight.”, Flavio continues, “It will have a high level of performance because it will profit significantly from the technological solutions that Viry Chatillon has developed over the past three years. Our objective is to design an engine that can respond to the demands of the new regulations, imposing one engine per race weekend, while at the same time maintaining our performance targets. Basically, this will be a high-performance engine, reliable for practice and the race.”
Jean Jacques His will be leaving at the end of this month and this means a change in the structure of the team:
“I have appointed Bernard Dudot as Deputy Managing Director. Project Manager Jean Philippe Mercier will continue the development of the 2003 engine whereas Leon Taillieu will be Chief Designer of the 2004 engine.” Said the Italian Manager
“The key part of our strategy is to achieve complete integration of chassis and engine.”, Briatore said, “The new engine will answer a precise brief and ‘wish-list’ from the Enstone team headed by Mike Gascoyne. The engine and chassis teams will develop the overall package step-by-step in total synergy. We have implanted at Enstone a small engine branch, Engine Development UK (ex-TWR), which will be managed by Viry Project Manager Pascal Tribotte.”
The main reason for the change in the architecture of the engine seems to be the new rules of one engine per weekend:
“In order to guarantee reliability, it will have a ‘traditional’ architecture, but without any increase in weight.”, Flavio continues, “It will have a high level of performance because it will profit significantly from the technological solutions that Viry Chatillon has developed over the past three years. Our objective is to design an engine that can respond to the demands of the new regulations, imposing one engine per race weekend, while at the same time maintaining our performance targets. Basically, this will be a high-performance engine, reliable for practice and the race.”
Jean Jacques His will be leaving at the end of this month and this means a change in the structure of the team:
“I have appointed Bernard Dudot as Deputy Managing Director. Project Manager Jean Philippe Mercier will continue the development of the 2003 engine whereas Leon Taillieu will be Chief Designer of the 2004 engine.” Said the Italian Manager
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