Renault’s managing director Cyril Abiteboul says that the team’s three-year construction phase will come to end in 2018. Before the commencement of the 2016 season, Renault bought out the Lotus team and returned to the sport as a works team.

It set out its long-term goal of reaching the front of the grid in the near future, but acknowledged it needed to build towards it. The last two seasons have been years of “progression” for the French squad, and Abiteboul is expecting much of the same in 2018.

“2017 was a year of progression and 2018 has to be the same, another year of progression, another year of construction,” he told Crash.net.

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