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Turnaround gave Renault vital boost - Symonds

Renault engineering director Pat Symonds says his team's turnaround in form in the second half of the season has given the entire outfit a vital boost after it started off the season lower than it expected to be.

"It was disappointing that we started the year further back than we had expected to, and had the situation remained like that it would have been quite disheartening for us," said Symonds. "There were reasons for it, but in this particular case it's the facts that matter, not the reasons for those facts. The way we've turned the situation around has given us an enormous boost as we've proved we can out-develop our competitors and arguably out-develop those that are leading the championship because we really have moved a lot closer to them. I think that's a great message to take through to next year with so many new factors being introduced because we've shown that we can steal the initiative with this sort of thing."

"I like to set very high targets and the goal we set mid-season to finish fourth in the championship with the third quickest car was not as ambitious a target as I would normally like us to set," he added. "Having said that it was, at the time, a difficult target and I am pleased that the first part of that target is both objective and proven - we've finished fourth and can't be beaten; the second part is probably subjective, although I think in the past couple of races we've shown that we have the third quickest car, so in my eyes we've achieved both those objectives."

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