Renault Interested in Supply Engines to More Formula One Teams

“We certainly have got the capacity to supply more than the two teams we have been doing this year, it’s not a big problem for us.

“Obviously we have to produce a few more engines and get some more people to do the job. As far as getting an engine ready and supplying two teams, it’s then not a big problem to do so for three or four teams with an extra effort.”

Renault have impressed so far this season with Robert Kubica claiming two podiums in the first six races. This is in stark contrast to 2009 when they could only muster 26 points for the whole season.

Taffin says he is quite happy with the way the Renault engine has performed so far this year.

“We might not have the best level in terms of power, but you have to look overall; how you set up the engine in the car, how you can develop the engine in the car or the car around the engine. So, I have to say, overall maybe we are not in as bad shape as you hear people say about [us], but I am quite happy with this engine.

From the track point of view, we haven’t really changed the way we work from last year, the only thing that we really changed is the way we make the car work and the job we have done at the factory. Our job here, whether we are working on the engine, chassis, gearbox whatever, is to make sure we get 100 per cent out of what our factories are doing.

At the track, our main objective is to have all the parts available, which is sometimes quite tricky because we are developing the car in every area quite quickly and we tend to have some brand new parts for every race, so that is just one of the difficulties we are facing.”