After being runner-up in Euro F3000 (with €100,000 budget), Romain Dumas was summoned by the Renault F1 Team for an evaluation test at the Barcelona circuit in December 2002. Pardon the critique, but his style was pretty wild ... Is that why Franck Montagny was preferred to him as test driver? Or was it necessary to sign a lifetime contract with Flavio Briatore?

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