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No Renault caution - Symonds

Briatore & Symonds

Renault must not be 'over cautious' in its campaign to maintain a lead over title rivals McLaren in the '05 championship. That's the warning of engineering director Pat Symonds, who reckons Hungary - for example - 'slipped through our hands' in the error.

"McLaren are clearly very quick at the moment," the Renault chief told Britain's The Observer newspaper. "The important thing for Renault is to maintain the advantage we have carved out."

In Hungary, a race ceded to Kimi Raikkonen, Symonds lamented Renault's questionable tyre choice. He admitted: "We never really got the car dialled in. I think that was partly a function of concentrating our practice running on the harder tyre."

It is also a source of Enstone based concern that many of the remaining tracks this season are some that are thought to particularly suit the McLaren racer's strengths.

Symonds, though, noted that at Silverstone - probably Renault's most worrisome venue - Fernando Alonso was on the pace. He added: "I think we will see the two teams playing something of a cat and mouse game all the way through to the end. I believe the edge will switch from one camp to the other."

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