Renault say they are ready to debut their F-duct at the Belgian GP in just under four weeks time.
The Enstone based outfit will be the last of the major teams to introduce the rear-wing stalling device, used to decrease the downforce produced on the straights.
McLaren pioneered the device which caused some confusion among rival teams. Once the systems secrets were out in the open, a development race among the front-runners began, with Sauber and Mercedes debuting their own first.
Ferrari, Force India, Williams and Red Bull followed shortly after.
Renault technical director, James Allison, revealed that Renault would be using the system in the teams post-race podcast.
“We should have that [the F-duct] available in Spa,” he confirmed.
“Clearly, we’ve seen team after team bring it and noticed the step up in their fortunes once they’ve got it working, but we’ve also seen it isn’t necessarily as easy as falling out of bed to make it work so we’ll have our work cut out in Spa to make sure that we get it working from the off.
“We’re the last significant major team to put it on our car and that was a deliberate policy of mine.
“Whether right or wrong, I knew we had a lot of good stuff coming through [in development] of a more conventional nature, [and] knew that that was going to tie up a lot of our design capacity and manufacturing capacity, but was very confident that I could get a lot of performance on the car that way.”
Allison believes the step the new update could bring in terms of pace could see the Renault team challenging McLaren.
“We’ve no reason to think that we shouldn’t be running, I would say, strongly up with the McLarens,” he added.
“So I would hope that we can be ahead of the Mercedes’ team and the other [midfield] guys and maybe giving the McLarens a hard time.”
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