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Renault plans all-new engine for 2019

Plans to use the more powerful but less reliable C-spec power unit as the basis for its 2019 campaign are dropped, as Cyril Abiteboul reveals that instead the French manufacturer plans an all-new unit. 'It is a new engine,' he said, according to Motorsport.com. 'One of the reasons for it, and why the Spec-C is not delivering more in terms of performance, is because we are not held back by the structural limitations of the engine. 'Given the ambition in terms of power improvement for next year, pretty much all of the engine will be new,' he continued. 'Not only on ERS side, because there is little power and little performance to extract there, but the rest of the ICE will be new. 'That is...
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