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Renault "not attacking anyone" with F1 oil clarification request

Renault insists that a recent push to clarify that Formula 1 manufacturers were not allowed to burn oil as fuel was not an 'attack' on any of its rivals. Ahead of the first pre-season test at Barcelona, the FIA responded to a request from Red Bull to enquire whether, for a power boost, teams could cleverly burn oil as fuel. Amid suspicions from the Milton Keynes-based team that rivals Mercedes had been exploiting this area of the rules for a qualifying boost, the FIA responded that it was clear such use of oil was not legal. Renault's F1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul said he welcomed the clarification request from the FIA, not because it closed down something others were potentially...
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