Renault engine chief Rémi Taffin says that the manufacturer has addressed a handful of reliability issues, which have affected results for its customer teams in recent events.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen failed to finish in Azerbaijan due to engine problems, his third race-ending mechanical issue of the year, having also encountered drama during practice at the Baku City Circuit.
Renault was the only team unable to score a point at Baku, with Jolyon Palmer suffering a fuel leak in practice, which triggered a fire, before his engine misfired early in the race, while an electrical issue stranded Nico Hülkenberg in Q2.
Taffin believes fixes are now in place in order to prevent the recent issues reoccurring.
“What is clear [from Baku] is that we did have reliability issues on track,” said Taffin.
“[These are] issues which we immediately addressed, but this should not detract from the clear progress which has been made.
“We have put in place new and better procedures to catch any issues before the cars take to the track and we’re working with great diligence in this area.
“For our customer teams, we saw coincidence of issues. The Energy Store issue we have seen has been addressed and the new Energy Stores are to a different specification without this concern.
“With the ICE, the latest specification addresses the problems we’ve seen to date. In Austria, we have the latest versions of components and we should not see any repeats of previous woes.”
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