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Sep 21
“People like to do business with winning teams, so it goes hand in hand.”
Kimi Raikkonen is the famous name now linked with Renault for 2011, but Vitaly Petrov is still valued by the team, owner Gerard Lopez insists. The 2007 world champion’s possible interest in driving alongside Robert Kubica has stirred the news headlines, but Lopez is still hopeful the Russian rookie Petrov is a winning formula from a business point of view.
Mar 02
Lada will appear on Renault’s 2010 car and team.
Russia is set to sponsor the Renault formula one team in 2010, prime minister Vladimir Putin has announced. Russian rookie Vitaly Petrov has been signed to race this year for the Enstone based team, which has been essentially taken over by the private equity firm Genii Capital.
That is the admission of Nicolas Deschaux, president of the country’s motor racing sanctioning body FFSA (Federation Francaise du Sport Automobile). 