Fisi needs to be Renaults number 1

By Kristien Barker
February 20 2007

Renaults Giancarlo Fisichella wants to get off to a good start in the 2007 season so he can be the number 1 driver in the team and Renault can concentrate all their efforts on making him the world drivers champion

Giancalro Fisichella talked to Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper about beating Renaults new boy Heikki Kovalinen and becoming Renaults number 1 so all the effort can be focused on the Itallian.



"The important thing is to start very well already at the first grand prix and to carry on even better by always scoring points," .

"Then we'll see if Renault decide to concentrate on one driver to take him to the title.

"That's the way it's been in the last two years, and the strategy worked. However, for an infinite number of reasons, the chosen one wasn't me.

"Let's put it this way: after three or four races, if one of us will be in a better position than the other, Renault will decide."


The Itallian then went on to talk about the pace of the R27 which has been commented as being slightly behind that of the Ferrari and the Mclaren in recent weeks. But insists that this can be put right in the up and coming tests in Bahrain.

"We still don't have the same race pace as the best. But the R27 will be completed only in time for the last six days of testing, the most important ones: the tests in Bahrain,"

"It's still not clear where we are compared to the others. At Montmelo we were slower than Ferrari, even though a new wing improved the performance. But analysing the tests is tricky: you can only understand a bit of the competitors' capabilities.

"To know how much fuel the others have on board each time is hard. And besides, at Valencia Ferrari struggled while McLaren were scary, they were unreachable, while at Montmelo McLaren had the same pace as us and Ferrari were ahead."