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Ricciardo says Renault engine letdown a wake-up call for 2016

Daniel Ricciardo says that discovering the latest specification of Renault engine is no quicker than its predecessor is a good wake-up call for Red Bull if it continues with the French manufacturer next year. Red Bull elected to give Ricciardo the new engine to try at Interlagos in the hope it would deliver a step forward in performance, knowing it would land him a 10-place grid penalty. But Ricciardo revealed that he was in fact slower in a straight line during qualifying than teammate Daniil Kvyat, who was not using the upgraded engine. Asked if he felt it was worth taking a grid penalty for, he said: "With the grid penalty, no, but for us getting some clarity on where [the engine]...
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