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Renault's pit gantry failed in qualifying

Renault's pit gantry failed in qualifying

08 June 2008

During Saturday's qualifying session the Renault Formula 1 team had to deal with the more classic ways of communicating. The team's pit gantry and its tools failed at the pit wall. Nevertheless the team managed to score a fourth position for Sunday's Grand Prix with Fernando Alonso.

Looking back at Saturday's qualifying session Renault's Executive Director of Engineering, Pat Symonds, said: "An exciting session was made even more exciting by trying to manage qualifying without all the tools on our pit wall, which failed at the beginning of qualifying. Nevertheless, what an excellent result for Fernando: he starts 4th on the grid with a very sensible fuel load, and I think that is our best performance of the year so far.

"Nelson made big strides this morning and in the first part of qualifying, but ultimately Q2 was as far as he could get."



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