October 5, 2010

Renault: Schumacher no extra motivation

Berlin (dpa) - The battle for fourth place in the Constructors Championship of Formula 1 feels Mercedestracker Renault by world champion Michael Schumacher is not extra motivation.
"No, absolutely not," said team manager Eric Boullier in an interview on the official Formula 1 website. The fact that Mercedes is one of the last manufacturers in Formula 1, but the situation lend spice.
Against the Japanese Grand Prix this Sunday is Renault with 133 points in fifth place. Mercedes has 168 points. EB is confident of overtaking the successor to the outstanding team of BrawnGP four races still can. "We are getting close," he said to the targeted fourth place.
About the rankings in the constructors' world championship television revenue, the distribution of controlled. 2005 and 2006, Renault took the title with the design engineers as well as in the drivers' standings by Fernando Alonso brought.
Meanwhile Boullier said that in the four races in Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Abu Dhabi Vitaly Petrov must show that he was the one driver, the cockpit in 2011 to second the left can. "If he fails to convince us, he will not drive the car." Robert Kubica of Poland is set for next year.
To speculation that in addition to Kimi Raikkonen, whose application has been confirmed Boullier of, and Nick Heidfeld and Adrian Sutil a possible free cockpit could be on candidates, "the Renault team boss:" Now I have my words carefully select a lot. "You currently have no direct contact and the door was not open. "But we have signaled that they might also open some security."