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Frustrating final day for Renault

Renault wrapped up its pre-Monaco Grand Prix test with a frustrating Friday at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit near le Castellet. Weather conditions were poor with heavy rain arriving in the middle of the morning, which restricted running and forced the team to rethink its programme.

Nelson Piquet commented, "Quite a frustrating day really, but there was no point in doing lots of miles in the wet conditions. Fortunately we did a lot of laps on Thursday and got most of our work done because we knew that it was likely to be wet on Friday. So a good week overall and I think we are well prepared for Monaco next week."

Christian Silk, chief test engineer added, "There was not much to be learnt on Friday because of the poor weather, but Nelson managed a couple of runs in the dry this morning and was pretty happy with the car on the longer circuit and everything was working well on the car. For a lot of the day it was too wet to be safe to run, but when it was safe enough we got out and did some basic set-up work, and gave Nelson some more wet weather experience."

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