News in brief… October 2020

The car, with the twin boot spoiler, had been set to race in a Clio Cup UK championship in 2020 – eventually postponed but which could take place in 2021.

This has left France, where the cars are built and neighbouring Spain to progress with their own championships with the car – effectively the fifth generation of Clio Cup racing model.

On its debut in France the wing had not yet materialised but in the most recent races at Paul Ricard as well at Clio Cup Spain’s opening rounds at Barcelona all cars had been fitted with the stylish aerofoil.

For enquiries about the new Clio Cup into the UK please contact importer R.Sport r_sport_uk@hotmail.com or tel 07733 330421.

Jabouille, nicknamed ‘Le Grand’, is the driver who led Renault into F1 in the late 1970s when it became the first manufacturer in the sport’s history to pioneer turbo-charging technology.

That was at Silverstone’s British GP in 1977 and two years later, in the summer of 1979, Jabouille gave Renault – and himself – a first victory, in, of all races, the French GP at Dijon.

Jabouille would win just once more for Renault, at the fabled Osterreichring in Austria in 1980 before departing the team at the end of that season.

He remains very much a part of Renault Sport’s DNA and was in fact reunited with his and Renault’s first F1 car, R.S.01, for a series of demonstration laps at 2017’s Monaco GP weekend.