Prost on Ricciardo signing: Will take Renault to "another dimension"

Renault finished fourth in 2018 behind the top three but Alain Prost believes the signing of Daniel Ricciardo will take the team to “another dimension”.

The Australian join from Red Bull and will partner Nico Hulkenberg after winning seven races with Renault power at his former team.

"We are very happy with the drivers we had in 2018, that's the first thing we must say," Prost told Motorsport.com.

"But for sure Daniel will give, not another motivation because we don't need that, but he's going to be quite a big help to make the team even better.

"He's going to give us some information, he's going to make the team in another dimension."

Renault finished best of the rest in 2018 behind the top three and Prost did admit that the team “missed some opportunities” but believes the progress with power unit is a step in the right direction.

“In fact, if you look at all the teams you always have some ups and downs.

“We were maybe not where we wanted to be in the summer, for different reasons, but we came back,” added Prost.

"The engine side was a little bit better, on the chassis side there were a few things where maybe we missed some opportunities.”