RENAULT e.dams VISA PARIS ePRIX PREVIEW HOME EXPECTATIONS
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All action for the Visa Paris ePrix takes place on Saturday 23 April. Views from the team Alain Prost – Senior Team Manager: It's a big event for us in Paris, we're a French team and we're Renault so there is expectation. We also have more pressure because of our poor results last time out. We know our goal, which is to bounce back with a strong performance. The pressure and expectation is not always easy to manage and you have to channel this into being a positive pressure to perform at the very best level. We realise that the competition is getting closer and closer and in this case we need to do things right and to be honest we just didn't do that in Long Beach. Jean-Paul Driot – Senior Team Manager: From my perspective the aim is, of course, to win in Paris. The cars have been checked over, the drivers have had many debriefs and assessed their performances and the team have gone over the weekend in Long Beach to ensure we ever better prepared than ever for Paris. We want to be back in the position we know we should be in. Vincent Gaillardot – Renault Sport Project Leader: It's the midpoint of the season so the focus has been ensuring that the cars really are the very best they can be to ensure Sebastien and Nico can achieve the strongest results possible. After Long Beach the cars went back to Donington for a thorough evaluation and rebuild and we feel confident we can return to the strong results we saw earlier in the year. Nico Prost: I'm obviously looking forward to Paris as it's a massive honour to drive in your home country, I'm sure it will be a fantastic experience. The event is important for motorsport in France. I hope it'll be a great experience for everyone who sees it and for us lucky drivers who get to compete in it. It's good to be showcasing this style of racing and it's very important for Formula E to race in cities as that's where they can be used. France is doing a very good job of pushing for electric cars, Renault is pushing hard for it too. It's an event that makes sense politically and commercially to show the importance of electric cars with such a fabulous backdrop. Sebastien Buemi: After Long Beach stop and reset was my plan. I did make some mistakes and I lost the lead of the drivers' championship. Clearly I want to regain that lead for myself and help Renault e.dams to extend their lead in the teams' championship. The team have spent a lot of time working on the cars and I've been working with my engineers to have a strong approach to Paris. We want a strong result. It's going to be an amazing feeling to race in Paris and there's going to be pressure. It's our home race, so we're looking forward to being there and enjoying it with the fans. It'll be the biggest race of our season. It'll be a tough track, there's a lot of corners and it's tight and slow. It's tough to know until we drive it but I'm very motivated. A better race car for a better world? Motorsport might not be the first endeavour that comes to mind when thinking of pushing developments with the aim of benefitting the environment, however Renault Sport Project Leader Vincent Gaillardot explains why Renault's involvement with the Renault e.dams team does bring rapid benefits. Why motorsport? The motorsport development cycle is much quicker than the development cycle for road cars. We can implement new technology and test new features with very quick evaluation processes, this is the primary area where motorsport brings value relative to road car development. We are dealing with new technology and new concepts and there is a stronger link than in other motorsport categories between what we are doing for the race cars and the concepts which are relevant for the electric road cars. We all benefit from the programme and the lessons learnt. What changes and improvements have been seen from season one to season two? For this season thanks to the regulation changes we've been able to implement our own architecture for the powertrain and for the motor and gearbox and this freedom has made our work more relevant for the road car development as we can explore different architecture options to explore the best efficiency. The efficiency gives us the best results on the track, but for the consumer it gives the best range and performance from the battery which consequently means the best use of energy and therefore the most positive outcome for the environment. What can we expect for season three? We made a big step through developing our own architecture for the current season so for season three the focus is more on the optimisation of this architecture as the concept is good, but there are further areas where we can make significant gains. Where can gains be made? We are power and energy limited by the regulations so the main area of competitive endeavour is in efficiency. The team who can be the most efficient with the energy at their disposal will be the team who wins. The more efficient you can be, the greater the potential benefit to road cars. The aim is to get to as close as possible to 100% efficient. There's still some way to go, but this is what drives us. More specifically, what are you looking at? Motor inverter technology is our primary area of focus currently. This is where there are gains to be made and the technology transfer is two-way here. We work closely with the motor inverter suppliers for our road cars so we can compare the technology we are using and the results we gain. This means we have two paths of development which are complementary. Whatever the purpose of electrical vehicle usage, efficiency and efficiency gains are king. For road cars the main goal is to extend the mileage range, whereas for Formula E it's more about extracting the maximum performance over the race stint. We want higher efficiency to be quicker, they want higher efficiency to go further, but the means to achieve these different aims are very similar with technology implementation. It's a very exciting and worthwhile area of development. Tweet #FanBoost #SebastienBuemi to give Sebastien a boost for Paris. Alternatively, you can vote for him on the Formula E website or official App. Tweet #FanBoost #NicolasProst to give Nico a boost in his home event. Alternatively, you can vote for him on the Formula E website or official App.
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