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Its also possible that the board of Renault have made it clear that there will be no corporate subsidy for the cost of an engine development programme.In which case the development will have to be funded by the income from supplying engines.
If we examine the history of Renault engines they have achieved quite a few championships and this would suggest that they had the capability to build the best engines.What may currently be lacking is the cadre of engineers who made forced induction work and their current equivalents may take a while to get to the dominant level that Renault used to enjoy.
It would be a brave man if anybody suggested that Honda will be far off the pace when they return and am I alone in wishing that somebody would throw enough cash at Cosworth to do their stuff with a current generation power unit?
Mercedes cannot be complacent and any of the others could give them a hard time quite soon.
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