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Old 5 Mar 2013, 22:38 (Ref:3214789)   #1
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Renault returning to Le Mans?

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/n...rn-to-le-mans/

Renault to supply engines to Signatech for P2 under the Alpina brand and then move into a full works P1 effort in 2014 with their F1 engine? Would be amazing if true.

Edit to add: Not trying to infer Mr. Collins' reporting is incorrect just that nothing has been officially announced.
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Old 5 Mar 2013, 22:44 (Ref:3214793)   #2
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Wow. I trust Sam on this if he's confident to put out this story.

Plenty of people have speculated that Alpine/Renault are the reason for the announcement on Friday. Adding that together with the museum stuff which is going on all it seems to fit!
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Old 5 Mar 2013, 22:44 (Ref:3214794)   #3
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Renault to supply engines to Signatech for P2 under the Alpina brand and then move into a full works P1 effort in 2014 with their F1 engine? Would be amazing if true.

Edit to add: Not trying to infer Mr. Collins' reporting is incorrect just that nothing has been officially announced.
Fantastic news if true! This is how it's done Nissan.
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Old 5 Mar 2013, 22:54 (Ref:3214797)   #4
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Fantastic news if true! This is how it's done Nissan.
Maybe that's actually the reason why Nissan are doing what they are doing - after all Nissan and Renault are partners.
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Old 5 Mar 2013, 22:56 (Ref:3214798)   #5
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Still not a nailed on P1 entry but we're getting close.

Definitely a step in the right direction. Going up from an engine deal to a full-blown P1 is something completely different.
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So it's possible that in three years maybe we will see

Audi
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Honda(??)

In p1? Awesome news to hear about Renault supplying engines and hopefully fielding a full effort. No wonder they don't want to add more f1 customers.
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Maybe that's actually the reason why Nissan are doing what they are doing - after all Nissan and Renault are partners.
Good point. Selfishly I want to see them now. The skeptic in me still thinks they may just be milking the exposure of G56.
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So it's possible that in three years maybe we will see

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Honda(??)

In p1? Awesome news to hear about Renault supplying engines and hopefully fielding a full effort. No wonder they don't want to add more f1 customers.
All at a time when P1 gets killed in North America, if only the Don had held out... Now we get DP, neutered P2, and DWs.
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Old 5 Mar 2013, 23:23 (Ref:3214812)   #9
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All at a time when P1 gets killed in North America, if only the Don had held out... Now we get DP, neutered P2, and DWs.
Get out of my mind! I was just about to post how it's ironic that p1 gets killed off stateside and then starts to bloom
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Fantastic news if true! This is how it's done Nissan.
It's the same company! As a matter of fact, this is pretty much what I said would happen when you guys were having your *****fest about Nissan. Sportscar fans are ridiculous.
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It's the same company! As a matter of fact, this is pretty much what I said would happen when you guys were having your *****fest about Nissan. Sportscar fans are ridiculous.
Audi and Porsche are both part of VWAG, but their P1 projects are separate. What makes you think it can't be the same for Nissan and Renault?
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So it's possible that in three years maybe we will see

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Honda(??)
I'd still be inclined to put a question mark next to Renault to be honest. Still so much we don't know about this. Hopefully we'll get more info on Friday if this is what the announcement is about.

I'd feel a lot better if we had some firm start dates for P1 programmes but manufacturers lodging their interest has to be a good thing - even if it just solidifies in the mind of Audi and Toyota that this is the right place to be in '14 and beyond.

As VAG have shown the options to display different technologies makes it more feasible for sibling brands to race against each other. Hopefully that will become even more so if the regs get opened out as Nissan would like.
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http://www.racecar-engineering.com/n...rn-to-le-mans/

Renault to supply engines to Signatech for P2 under the Alpina brand and then move into a full works P1 effort in 2014 with their F1 engine? Would be amazing if true.
FIA gets heavily involved in Endurance racing, introduce rules so that F1 engines can be raced at LM. I wonder why nobody thought of this one before. What could possibly go wrong?
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So according to Graham there's another manufacturer circling. Could be Honda? Could be someone else?

Sportscar fans are riding a wave of hope right now!
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It's the same company! As a matter of fact, this is pretty much what I said would happen when you guys were having your *****fest about Nissan. Sportscar fans are ridiculous.
What is so ridiculous in wishing a major manufacturer would race against others instead of hiding for 2 years in an exhibition class? Look at Toyota...
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So according to Graham there's another manufacturer circling. Could be Honda? Could be someone else?

Sportscar fans are riding a wave of hope right now!
Agreed. Jaguar, Honda your turn!
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Audi and Porsche are both part of VWAG, but their P1 projects are separate. What makes you think it can't be the same for Nissan and Renault?
Because Nissan and Renault are not Audi and Porsche.
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Wow this is very interesting! The fact that Renault is teaming up with Signatech could explain why Signatech and Nissan split.

It is great to see manufacturers becoming interested in Le Mans again.
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Because Nissan and Renault are not Audi and Porsche.
Agreed, they are more diverse geographically. But like Audi/Porsche are using racing to prove up different technologies. How is that so different?
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What is so ridiculous in wishing a major manufacturer would race against others instead of hiding for 2 years in an exhibition class? Look at Toyota...
Yes look at Toyota, a much bigger and much more experienced organization. I've had this argument before, but in the off chance that I might actually get through this time, Nissan under Ghosn has been a lot more frugal, especially in motorsport. Meanwhile, in the same time period, Toyota has grown to one of the top 3 automakers worldwide, and has been extremely ambitious in every form of motorsport conceivable. How otherwise reasonable posters seem to overlook this fact and expect Nissan to magically have the resources at hand like Toyota does just astounds me.
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Agreed, they are more diverse geographically. But like Audi/Porsche are using racing to prove up different technologies. How is that so different?
The scale of the technologies and the budgets at which both of them operate.
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The scale of the technologies and the budgets at which both of them operate.
With all due respect, you have no idea what kind of resources are being dedicated to these motorsport programs by the manufacturers. Plus Toyota, by their own accord, has been running their program on a relatively small budget. By Gawd, we have a dearth of manufacturers looking to become involved and you are complaining that fans are getting excited?
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It makes you wonder how long the ACO has known about this.

If I knew Signatech were hooking up with Alpine Renault for an engine deal I'd definitely have given them two entries for Le Mans instead of one.
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With all due respect, you have no idea what kind of resources are being dedicated to these motorsport programs by the manufacturers. Plus Toyota, by their own accord, has been running their program on a relatively small budget. By Gawd, we have a dearth of manufacturers looking to become involved and you are complaining that fans are getting excited?
Not at all. And yes, I don't know for sure what the budgets for each are, but I can use critical thinking and see that VWAG/Audi/Porsche, and Toyota have their footprint in many, many different motorsports, compared to Nissan/Renault, which if it wasn't for F1 and Super GT, wouldn't have any top-line motorsport programs. And even though they have been massively successful in F1, For as long as I can remember, they've operated well below any of the other manufacturers budgets(bar Cosworth). It's a case of putting two and two together.
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