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Renault F1 Team Between Two Grand Prix.
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Between two races, the Renault F1 cars have to be checked inch by inch.The vehicules are entirely dismounted, the parts dispatched to the different departments and the puzzle reassembled according to the development strategy defined for the next race. Live this race against time step by step until the departure to the next Grand Prix and experience the pressure going up as the clock keeps ticking.
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Each year the Cannes Film Festival is the worldwide meeting place for cinemas' elite. Where the finest projects succeed and careers can be made. For Renault, the official partner of the Festival for the past 28 years, this year is an opportunity to preview it's own star-in-the-making, the fully electric powered Fluence Z.E.. Follow Renault TV at the 64th Cannes Festival, from the Croisette, to the Atelier Renault of the Plage du Majestic beach sharing in the glamour and exclusivity. In additiona gain a chance to see behind the scene where the all new Renault Latitude fleet is deployed. These 140 official Latitudes will traverse the streets of Cannes carrying the esteemed guests and jury members to the bottom of the all too famous steps, As well as the glamour of the festival with its international stars including jury members Jude Law, Uma Thurman, and their president Robert de Niro, discover unseen cinematic magic via another partner of Renault, Les Toiles Enchantées, who bring the silver screen to the hospitalised children. Welcome to the Cannes Film festival with Renault TV.
In 2011, Renault takes up with its heart of historic trade of motorist in Formula 1, and create the Renault Sport F1 entity. With its considerable experience in the mother of all motorsport categories, the Renault engine managed to, at each of its 29 season of Formula 1 entries, attract succes, that is to say 9 world champion titles won by teams supplied by Renault. This year, the Viry-Châtillon factory supplies its engine to three teams: Lotus Renault GP, Team Lotus, and Red Bull Racing, world champion team in 2010. Between technical and logistical challenges, from conception of the engines to the fire-up, discover with Renault TV a few days before the first grand-prix, the preparation of the 2011 Formula 1 season, backstage of Renault Sport F1 and the three teams that it equips.
During this program, we discover Renault Ninth Formula One World title celebration behind the scene. Official ceremony at l'Atelier Renault on the Champs-Elysées chaired by Bernard Rey in the presence of Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner . It is also the opportunity to discover the new entity Renault Sport F1 from now dedicated to supply Formula 1 engines and its objectives. A few hours earlier exclusively with Renault TV, Team Red Bull Racing was able to benefit of an exclusive Renault sport F1 factory tour. This visit was the opportunity of a day of work and partner team celebration.
Apprentice star, Nick Hewer gives us a blow by blow account of his adventure across quarter of the world's circumference in a Renault 4 christened Hortense.
By the late 1950s Renault had already proved that it could make attractive cars with its smooth and pretty Dauphine saloon, but in 1959 they went one step further by making a beautiful 2 door convertible body to go over the Dauphine's sensible running gear. Renault had made a classic and it was called - the Floride.
It's the most prestigous entertainment events on the planet, and with Renault as one of the official sponsors, Renault TV was delighted to send the Zoom team to report on this year's Cannes Film Festival to celeberate Renault's long standing association with the movies. Join Alice Tumler as she mingles with the stars on the red carpet and catches up with John Lassiter and the rest of the team behind the amazing Disney/Pixar 3D animation 'Up'. Renault TV is also granted an exclusive interview with the festival's president Gilles Jacob and Alice also meets up with the dedicated team charged with transporting the stars around the festival in the official Renault Fleet.
Apprentice star, Nick Hewer gives us a blow by blow account of his adventure across quarter of the world's circumference in a Renault 4 christened Hortense.
Apprentice star Nick Hewer recounts his impressive solo journey from London to Mongolia in a Renault 4. We discover Nick's passion for culture and his spirit of adventure as he drives across some of the remotest landscapes in the world. The film is interspersed with Nick's own footage from his journey and we see a whole new side to his Apprentice persona as he documents the highs and lows of his extraordinary trip.
Apprentice star Nick Hewer recounts his impressive solo journey from London to Mongolia in a Renault 4. We discover Nick’s passion for culture and his spirit of adventure as he drives across some of the remotest landscapes in the world. The film is interspersed with Nick’s own footage from his journey and we see a whole new side to his Apprentice persona as he documents the highs and lows of his extraordinary trip.
RACING
It's the end of the Formula 1 season and the Christmas break is here. However, the festive season is not a relaxing one for the drivers. Even though it's Christmas they need to maintain peak fitness throughout the close season. Indeed, the premier motorsport category accepts no half-measures or casualness and these top drivers, hunters of tenths of seconds, cannot afford the slightest deviation from their preparation for the 2012 season. To reach the top of their profession, each worked his way up, completed his apprenticeship and ultimately committed himself to live a very restrictive life, following the rhythms of the Grand-Prix weekends. On Renault TV, experience the life of the Formula 1 driver, through their own words and the inisghts of their engineers at Renault Sport F1.
After another globetrotting season Formula 1 ends 2011 with the Brazilian grand prix and the triumphal progress of Red Bull Renault who are the Constructor champions for the second year in a row. But the plaudits surely go to Sebastian Vettel for becoming the youngest double world champion in history and for breaking Nigel Mansell's 1992 record number of pole positions. The Renault Sport F1 crews share their satisfaction on this hugely successful season with RTV and receive a visit to Viry-Chatillon from Vettel himself. We also hear from the drivers and managers at the debutants of Team Lotus and Lotus Renault GP in a review of the whole 2011 season before looking forward to the prospects of all three teams powered by Renault Sport F1 in 2012.
At the forefront of innovation, the chassis engineers have only one goal, that the Formula 1 vehicles coming out of their workshops are perfectly tuned for the race to come. But to win, the performance is not the only criteria. Strategy for an F1 team is above pure science, it is an artform positioned between forecast and audaciousness. So how are the thousands of pieces of information that enable the building of a race strategy managed? The answer : At Viry-Châtillon before each Grand-Prix, everything is simulated : curves, track temperatures, gear ratios...By gathering all the information for analysis enables the teams to adapt to the multiple details, specific to the engineers of Red Bull Racing, Lotus Renault GP and Team Lotus. Where does their inspiration come from? How do they implement their ideas? How do they manage aerodynamics? What kind of advantages can they get from their collaboration with Renault Sport F1? Discover all the answers only on Renault TV.
The French Rally Championship continue with the Mont-Blanc Rally. Among the 200 entries were the drivers in the Twingo R1, Twingo R2 and Clio R3 Trophies. Follow the Twingo R1 Trophy outsiders and l;earn about the Renault Sport and Pirelli partnership but mainly enjoy all the action from this rally!
World Champions in 2010 with Red Bull, the Renault Sport F1 team in 2011 aims to consolidate that success in 2011. Although an F1 season is judged by the short span of the races themselves, behind the scenes there are thousands of working hours, a tenacious organisation and a natural gift for mechanical innovation that keep the men and women of Viry Châtillon at the pinnacle of their professions and ahead of the rest of the constructors. This programme reveals the life cycle of the RS27 engine blocks, from design to recycling, and how these sorcerers of the mechanical ceaselessly drive development and increase performance.
In 2011, Renault takes up with its heart of historic trade of motorist in Formula 1, and create the Renault Sport F1 entity. With its considerable experience in the mother of all motorsport categories, the Renault engine managed to, at each of its 29 season of Formula 1 entries, attract succes, that is to say 9 world champion titles won by teams supplied by Renault. This year, the Viry-Châtillon factory supplies its engine to three teams: Lotus Renault GP, Team Lotus, and Red Bull Racing, world champion team in 2010. Between technical and logistical challenges, from conception of the engines to the fire-up, discover with Renault TV a few days before the first grand-prix, the preparation of the 2011 Formula 1 season, backstage of Renault Sport F1 and the three teams that it equips.
During this program, we discover Renault Ninth Formula One World title celebration behind the scene. Official ceremony at l'Atelier Renault on the Champs-Elysées chaired by Bernard Rey in the presence of Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner . It is also the opportunity to discover the new entity Renault Sport F1 from now dedicated to supply Formula 1 engines and its objectives. A few hours earlier exclusively with Renault TV, Team Red Bull Racing was able to benefit of an exclusive Renault sport F1 factory tour. This visit was the opportunity of a day of work and partner team celebration.
Chloe and Jade Edwards are sisters who've a passion to race in one of Renault's most competitive one make series; the Clio Cup. Both girls have a racing family pedigree stretching back two generations so driving fast is in the blood. Their father, Jim Edwards JNR won the Clio Cup back in 2001 so who better to guide these very competitive ladies around 'the home of motor racing' Silverstone racing circuit. We witness each sister battle it out against the more seasoned Clio Cup drivers as they fight the field for the best lap times but which sister will be the fastest?
Chloe and Jade Edwards are sisters who've a passion to race in one of Renault's most competitive one make series; the Clio Cup. Both girls have a racing family pedigree stretching back two generations so driving fast is in the blood. Their father, Jim Edwards JNR won the Clio Cup back in 2001 so who better to guide these very competitive ladies around 'the home of motor racing' Silverstone racing circuit. We witness each sister battle it out against the more seasoned Clio Cup drivers as they fight the field for the best lap times but which sister will be the fastest?
GRAND PRIX
It's the end of the Formula 1 season and the Christmas break is here. However, the festive season is not a relaxing one for the drivers. Even though it's Christmas they need to maintain peak fitness throughout the close season. Indeed, the premier motorsport category accepts no half-measures or casualness and these top drivers, hunters of tenths of seconds, cannot afford the slightest deviation from their preparation for the 2012 season. To reach the top of their profession, each worked his way up, completed his apprenticeship and ultimately committed himself to live a very restrictive life, following the rhythms of the Grand-Prix weekends. On Renault TV, experience the life of the Formula 1 driver, through their own words and the inisghts of their engineers at Renault Sport F1.
After another globetrotting season Formula 1 ends 2011 with the Brazilian grand prix and the triumphal progress of Red Bull Renault who are the Constructor champions for the second year in a row. But the plaudits surely go to Sebastian Vettel for becoming the youngest double world champion in history and for breaking Nigel Mansell's 1992 record number of pole positions. The Renault Sport F1 crews share their satisfaction on this hugely successful season with RTV and receive a visit to Viry-Chatillon from Vettel himself. We also hear from the drivers and managers at the debutants of Team Lotus and Lotus Renault GP in a review of the whole 2011 season before looking forward to the prospects of all three teams powered by Renault Sport F1 in 2012.
An exceptional 2011 season ended at the Montmelo circuit near Barcelona. Some categories produced incredibly tight, nail-biting battles between drivers, while others saw total domination by a single, outstanding champion. Despite high quality throughout the Formula Renault 3.5 field the Carlin Motorsport drivers, Robert Wickens and Jean-Eric Vergne, fought a no-holds-barred duel at the top of the pack throughout the season. In Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, Carlos Sainz Jr was the pre-season favourite, but the title eventually went to Robin Frijns in an action-packed championship. There was less suspense in the Eurocup Mégane Trophy, however, as Swiss driver Stefano Comini dominated the season from start to finish. The debut season of the Clio Eurocup was a successful one with eight spectacular races, battles throughout the field and an outstanding champion in Nicolas Milan.
Watched by a 62,000 strong crowd, the final Formula Renault 3.5 Series race of the season could hardly have been more eventful. The eagerly awaited duel between Carlin team-mates and championship rivals Robert Wickens and Jean-Eric Vergne was cut short when they clashed at the start, with Wickens forced to retire. The Frenchman battled on, however, and was virtual champion before having to pull out himself just ten minutes from the end, allowing the Canadian to become the seventh man to win the FR 3.5 Series. Claiming the race victory – his first in the discipline – was home favourite Albert Costa.
Starting in 2007, the partnership between Renault and Red Bull has grown very quickly into one of the most successful engine-chassis partnerships in Formula One and in Renault’s long history in the sport. The strong collaboration between Renault Sport F1 and the Red Bull Racing team enabled to put on track a wickedly effective and reliable chassis-engine package. After paying off in 2010, this partnership persists, and the RS27 engine powers one more time Red Bull Racing on top in 2011. After the celebration for Sebastian Vettel's title following Japan Grand Prix, it's time to celebrate the 10th Constructor's title of Renault's history in Formula 1.
Renault powers Formula One Champions and Renault TV is proud to add our congratulations to Sebastian Vettel for winning the Formula One World Championship 2011. In this programme you will meet sebastian and other members of the Renault team as they briefly explain part of what has made this such a fantastic season.
Renault Sport flags were flying proudly on the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife and Formula One circuits, as the legendary German venue hosted this 5th round of the World Series by Renault. Friday’s Renault Sport Day was a great success, and saw records fall in the Mégane RS Trophy. Yet another record was broken on Saturday evening when 127 Renault 4s gathered on the track. Finally, the weekend hit new highs in terms of excitement and suspense, with 50,000 fans braving the elements to enjoy an action-packed eight-race programme. There was an extra treat for those who came, as Nicolas Prost put the Lotus Renault GP R30 through its paces in a Formula One demonstration.
At the forefront of innovation, the chassis engineers have only one goal, that the Formula 1 vehicles coming out of their workshops are perfectly tuned for the race to come. But to win, the performance is not the only criteria. Strategy for an F1 team is above pure science, it is an artform positioned between forecast and audaciousness. So how are the thousands of pieces of information that enable the building of a race strategy managed? The answer : At Viry-Châtillon before each Grand-Prix, everything is simulated : curves, track temperatures, gear ratios...By gathering all the information for analysis enables the teams to adapt to the multiple details, specific to the engineers of Red Bull Racing, Lotus Renault GP and Team Lotus. Where does their inspiration come from? How do they implement their ideas? How do they manage aerodynamics? What kind of advantages can they get from their collaboration with Renault Sport F1? Discover all the answers only on Renault TV.
The Paul Ricard HTTT pulled in the crowds once again, 60,000 race fans flocked to the three-day meet, dispite the poor weather on the Sunday. It was the biggest attendance seen at the French track since the final round of the 1998 Renault Championships. Renault COO Carlos Tavares was in attendance as the fans lapped up the action on the track and the numerous attractions laid on in the tented village. The F1 exhibition by father-and-son duo Alain and Nicolas Prost proving one of the highlights of a memorable event.
The Silverstone round of the World Series by Renault once again proved to be a huge hit with the British public, with around 120,000 motorsport fans turning out for the event. The new Formula Renault 3.5 instantly set pulses racing. Fans caught their first glimpse of Renault Sport Technologies’ new single-seater on Sunday morning, thanks to an on-track demonstration by Romain Grosjean. It was a weekend of doubles on the track, and a few titles were also decided at Silverstone. But for most of the WSR drivers, the championship race continues in earnest at Paul Ricard HTTT before the season finale in Barcelona.
The inclement Hungarian weather did not stop 130,000 race fans from enjoying themselves at Round 6 of the World Series by Renault. Grabbing the headlines on the track were Jean-Eric Vergne, who produced two flawless drives to snatch the lead in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, while Robin Frijns had a hugely productive weekend in Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Stefano Comini continued his domination of the Eurocup Megane Trophy. Also keeping the fans entertained were a host of events organised in conjunction with Renault Hungary, not to mention Robert Wickens’ first few laps in the Lotus Renault R30, one of the highlights of the season so far.
World Champions in 2010 with Red Bull, the Renault Sport F1 team in 2011 aims to consolidate that success in 2011. Although an F1 season is judged by the short span of the races themselves, behind the scenes there are thousands of working hours, a tenacious organisation and a natural gift for mechanical innovation that keep the men and women of Viry Châtillon at the pinnacle of their professions and ahead of the rest of the constructors. This programme reveals the life cycle of the RS27 engine blocks, from design to recycling, and how these sorcerers of the mechanical ceaselessly drive development and increase performance.
Monaco is a course like no other. Every race driver, in any discipline, wants to win here at least once in their career, to cherish among their list of triumphs and trophies. The circuit is unique, where it requires special skill and dexterity to be as quick as possible while defying the barriers, making the Monaco Grand Prix the ideal place to turn heads.
For the last three years, victory in this event has gone to a rookie. Carlos Ghosn was there in person to congratulate Charles Pic at the finish in 2008, while the emotions of Oliver Turvey after his triumph in 2009 remain a vivid memory, as does Daniel Ricciardo’s first win in the discipline in 2010. Ricciardo's victory came just hours before another Australian driver flying Red Bull Racing colours, drove to victory in the F1 Grand Prix, his car also powered by a Renault engine. All these races here will remain as vignettes in the long history associating Renault and Monaco.
After Spa-Francorchamps, the Formula Renault 3.5 field is ready to take on yet another legendary circuit as WSR comes to Monza. Back to Monza, a circuit where the flagship discipline of the World Series by Renault has not been held since 2008. Now, having got the hang of Spa, they will have to master the Monza circuit. It is this circuit's long straights, fast bends, tricky chicanes and dizzyingly fast speeds that have earned it its legendary status. To prepare for this meeting, where the engineers will have to find just the right compromise in terms of settings to be both fast on the straights and efficient through the long bends, many teams have spent time at Monza during the off-season. Robert Wickens and Jean-Éric Vergne, will have their work cut out to defend their lead, while for Daniel Ricciardo and others, in just this third meeting of the season, it is already time for revenge if they are not to let their dreams slip away from them too easily!
The Spa-Francorchamps weekend unfolded in beautiful weather conditions for drivers and spectators alike at the World Series by Renault meeting. Over 60 000 spectators attended the Belgian round on the Ardennes circuit on 30th April/1st May to enjoy the eight races, the side shows and take part in the many activities on offer. Thanks to the help of Renault Belgium/Luxembourg and Renault Sport Technologies, the second round of the World Series by Renault was a big popular success. The crowd took full advantage of all the entertainment and Renault exhibitions, and the village was full until the final shows out on the track. The fans loved all the cars on display at Spa whether they were road-going or competition models, classic cars or single-seaters.
The first World Series by Renault meeting at Motorland Aragon was a huge popular success. 56 000 spectators flocked to the circuit near Alcaniz to see the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup, Mégane Trohy and Clio Cup races. The fans were also able to enjoy the show put on by Fairuz Fauzy in the Renault R30, and the acrobatics of the Renault Sport Show professional drivers in Mégane R.Ss. The race simulators in the village met with great success like the Lotus Renault on display, the games for the kids and the many other activities available. After Motorland Aragon the Spa-Francorchamps round looks like being the blue-riband event of the 2011 season. Drivers and motor racing enthusiasts all love the magnificent Belgian circuit so the organizers are expecting a huge crowd to turn up in the Ardennes.
In 2011, Renault takes up with its heart of historic trade of motorist in Formula 1, and create the Renault Sport F1 entity. With its considerable experience in the mother of all motorsport categories, the Renault engine managed to, at each of its 29 season of Formula 1 entries, attract succes, that is to say 9 world champion titles won by teams supplied by Renault. This year, the Viry-Châtillon factory supplies its engine to three teams: Lotus Renault GP, Team Lotus, and Red Bull Racing, world champion team in 2010. Between technical and logistical challenges, from conception of the engines to the fire-up, discover with Renault TV a few days before the first grand-prix, the preparation of the 2011 Formula 1 season, backstage of Renault Sport F1 and the three teams that it equips.
During this program, we discover Renault Ninth Formula One World title celebration behind the scene. Official ceremony at l'Atelier Renault on the Champs-Elysées chaired by Bernard Rey in the presence of Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner . It is also the opportunity to discover the new entity Renault Sport F1 from now dedicated to supply Formula 1 engines and its objectives. A few hours earlier exclusively with Renault TV, Team Red Bull Racing was able to benefit of an exclusive Renault sport F1 factory tour. This visit was the opportunity of a day of work and partner team celebration.
Now that the season has come to a close join Renault TV with a look back at the twists and turns that made up the 2010 World Series by Renault season.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers including Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Catalunya and features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers including Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Silverstone and features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers including Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Hockenheim and features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from the Hungaroring and features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Magny Cours and features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers including Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Le Mans in France features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers including Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Silverstone in the UK features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers including Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from the Hungaroring in Hungary features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers including Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Spa in Belgium features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Spa in Belgium features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Brno and features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. This show features Motorland.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Monaco.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Our 2010 Preview Show features all the main teams and contenders.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers including Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Today’s show from Barcelona features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
The World Series by Renault is an official feeder series to Formula One racing – current F1 drivers including Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica cut their teeth in the Renault series. Here on Renault TV we’re giving you the chance to watch all the action from this year’s World Series races, filmed at Europe’s best-known Grand Prix circuits. Our 2009 Preview Show features the main teams and contenders for this year’s 3.5 Litre championship series and profiles the young guns aiming to follow Jensen Button into the glamorous world of F1.
FORMULA ONE
It's the end of the Formula 1 season and the Christmas break is here. However, the festive season is not a relaxing one for the drivers. Even though it's Christmas they need to maintain peak fitness throughout the close season. Indeed, the premier motorsport category accepts no half-measures or casualness and these top drivers, hunters of tenths of seconds, cannot afford the slightest deviation from their preparation for the 2012 season. To reach the top of their profession, each worked his way up, completed his apprenticeship and ultimately committed himself to live a very restrictive life, following the rhythms of the Grand-Prix weekends. On Renault TV, experience the life of the Formula 1 driver, through their own words and the inisghts of their engineers at Renault Sport F1.
After another globetrotting season Formula 1 ends 2011 with the Brazilian grand prix and the triumphal progress of Red Bull Renault who are the Constructor champions for the second year in a row. But the plaudits surely go to Sebastian Vettel for becoming the youngest double world champion in history and for breaking Nigel Mansell's 1992 record number of pole positions. The Renault Sport F1 crews share their satisfaction on this hugely successful season with RTV and receive a visit to Viry-Chatillon from Vettel himself. We also hear from the drivers and managers at the debutants of Team Lotus and Lotus Renault GP in a review of the whole 2011 season before looking forward to the prospects of all three teams powered by Renault Sport F1 in 2012.
At the forefront of innovation, the chassis engineers have only one goal, that the Formula 1 vehicles coming out of their workshops are perfectly tuned for the race to come. But to win, the performance is not the only criteria. Strategy for an F1 team is above pure science, it is an artform positioned between forecast and audaciousness. So how are the thousands of pieces of information that enable the building of a race strategy managed? The answer : At Viry-Châtillon before each Grand-Prix, everything is simulated : curves, track temperatures, gear ratios...By gathering all the information for analysis enables the teams to adapt to the multiple details, specific to the engineers of Red Bull Racing, Lotus Renault GP and Team Lotus. Where does their inspiration come from? How do they implement their ideas? How do they manage aerodynamics? What kind of advantages can they get from their collaboration with Renault Sport F1? Discover all the answers only on Renault TV.
Renault TV visits the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed, the world’s premier celebration of all things automotive. Organised by the Earl of March, this annual homage to motoring culture takes place deep in the beautiful Sussex countryside. Racing stars of the past and present are on hand to drive some of motorsport’s most iconic cars up the famous Goodwood Hill climb. Renault is well represented at this year’s Festival, with the legendary RS01 on display, a car that pioneered turbo technology in Formula 1. Renault TV talks exclusively with René Arnoux, who drove the RS01 in the late ‘70s. Other highlights include interviews with 1996 F1 Champion and former Williams Renault driver Damon Hill and Russian ace Vitaly Petrov, currently driving for Lotus Renault GP in F1. Famous Renault cars on display include the 1993 Championship winning Williams Renault FW15C and a 1971 Alpine- Renault A110 rally car. Renault’s latest concept car, the Captur also makes an appearance
World Champions in 2010 with Red Bull, the Renault Sport F1 team in 2011 aims to consolidate that success in 2011. Although an F1 season is judged by the short span of the races themselves, behind the scenes there are thousands of working hours, a tenacious organisation and a natural gift for mechanical innovation that keep the men and women of Viry Châtillon at the pinnacle of their professions and ahead of the rest of the constructors. This programme reveals the life cycle of the RS27 engine blocks, from design to recycling, and how these sorcerers of the mechanical ceaselessly drive development and increase performance.
In 2011, Renault takes up with its heart of historic trade of motorist in Formula 1, and create the Renault Sport F1 entity. With its considerable experience in the mother of all motorsport categories, the Renault engine managed to, at each of its 29 season of Formula 1 entries, attract succes, that is to say 9 world champion titles won by teams supplied by Renault. This year, the Viry-Châtillon factory supplies its engine to three teams: Lotus Renault GP, Team Lotus, and Red Bull Racing, world champion team in 2010. Between technical and logistical challenges, from conception of the engines to the fire-up, discover with Renault TV a few days before the first grand-prix, the preparation of the 2011 Formula 1 season, backstage of Renault Sport F1 and the three teams that it equips.
During this program, we discover Renault Ninth Formula One World title celebration behind the scene. Official ceremony at l'Atelier Renault on the Champs-Elysées chaired by Bernard Rey in the presence of Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner . It is also the opportunity to discover the new entity Renault Sport F1 from now dedicated to supply Formula 1 engines and its objectives. A few hours earlier exclusively with Renault TV, Team Red Bull Racing was able to benefit of an exclusive Renault sport F1 factory tour. This visit was the opportunity of a day of work and partner team celebration.
Eric Cantona was lucky enough to be invited to take part in the amazing Feel It experience, an intense day of motorsport nirvana, all laid on by the ING Renault F1 Team at the incredible Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track in the South of France. Eric starts the day preparing his mind and body and is soon driving a Formula Renault. Soon he's in the passenger seat of a new Renault Megane Trophy for a full throttle touring car race and then he gets his hands on a new Laguna Coupe, making the most of its ultra advanced 4 control – 4 wheel steering system on hot lap around the track. After a quick trip down memory lane, when Cantona senior turns up in Eric's first dream car – an apple green Renault 5 TS, the former footballer has to take on the 700 horse power of a Formula 1 car. The day is ended by a physically draining ride in a 3 seater F1 driven at break kneck speed. Eric hung on to his helmet, but his mind was already blown!