Renault relaxed over DRS issue

It was a frantic start for Renault in pre-season testing, earlier in the week after Ricciardo’s rear wing flew off, but the team believe they have now solved that problem.

Renault ran without DRS during Wednesday’s session which was piloted by Nico Hulkenberg whilst the issue was resolved.

Following analysis, it was revealed a fault with the DRS mechanism caused the problem and the team confirmed all is well heading into the final day of pre-season testing in Barcelona.

"It lost the link bar, and that allowed the flap to rotate,” said Renault technical director, Nick Chester.

The incident caused the team’s new driver, Daniel Ricciardo to spin out but Chester remained fairly relaxed about the whole situation, blaming it on technical changes.

“So it is a just a detail change that we needed to make,” added Chester.