Renault Sport has announced that Frédéric Vasseur will be leaving his role as team principal of the manufacturers Formula 1 team.
After a first season spent relaunching and rebuilding its Formula 1 team, Renault Sport Racing and Frédéric Vasseur have agreed by mutual consent to part company, effective as of today.
Both parties remain committed to maintaining the good working relationship they have enjoyed and expect this to take a new form sometime in the future.
The outlook of Renault's second season back in Formula 1, as well as the resources implemented to meet them, will be set out in detail at the presentation of the team's new race car.
The Renault Sport Racing and the Formula 1 team continue to be managed by Jérôme Stoll, its President, and Cyril Abiteboul, its Managing Director.
Vasseur was named team principal at Renault just a year ago upon the manufacturers' return as a full works team to Grand Prix racing following its take-over of Lotus at the end of 2015.
The Frenchman's credentials at the time included running ART with great success in several junior formulae, where Vasseur nurtured the talent of Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas, Nico Rosberg and Jules Bianchi making them - and many more-– champions on their pathway to F1.
The departure of a pivotal element of the Renault staff, and a man perceived by all as a great asset to the team, is surely a reflection of a more important underlying problem.Watch this space..
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