Red Bull and Mercedes have once again led the calls for Marcin Budkowski to serve a longer gardening leave period before he is allowed to join Renault.

Ahead of a washed-out FP2 session at Suzuka, Renault announced that Budkowski, who resigned from his role as head of the FIA’s technical department, would be joining the team as an Executive Director and will oversee all chassis development and production activities.

He will be fulfiling that role with the knowledge of all the other teams’ initial plans for the 2018 season as he only has to serve three months gardening leave before he can officially join the Enstone team.

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