The key mistake that has hurt Renault's F1 return

Renault only offered "glimpses" of its new car at its launch event on Wednesday - but what was perhaps even more significant was the revelation from Cyril Abiteboul on how it plans to turn around its biggest self-imposed issue

Jonathan Noble Feb 13, 2020, 10:50 AM

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Formula 1 teams need no reminding that the best tactic in the build up to a new season is to under promise and over deliver.

The job certainly seems simple enough. Pull back the covers on a car, try as much as you can to downplay the potential and promise for the campaign that lays ahead, and then rock it in Melbourne to rub the noses of the opposition in to the dirt.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.