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Renault F1 Team finished the Pirelli French Grand Prix with #danielricciardo seventh and Nico Hülkenberg ninth, however, a postrace penalty for Daniel meant he exited the points, which promoted Nico to eighth.
Daniel had started from eighth on the grid but fell down to tenth on the first lap. An early stop on lap 16 to move from the Medium to the Hard tyre gave him ammunition to fight back up the field, taking the Toro Rossos and hunting down the McLarens. He closed on Lando Norris in the final stages of the race and made a move on the last lap, but a 10second time penalty for overtaking both Norris and Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Räikkönen outside the track limits pushed him down to eleventh position in the final classification.
Nico had a hardfought race to finish ninth at the flag. Starting from thirteenth on Hard tyres, he made an excellent start and was locked in a battle with Räikkönen for tenth. A late stop for Mediums did not yield a chance to overtake the Finn and he came home ninth, which later became eighth after Daniel’s penalty.
Forty years after Renault’s first #formula1 victory at the French Grand Prix, Renault F1 Team sits fifth in the Constructors’ Championship.
• Daniel started from eighth on Pirelli’s used Medium (yellow) tyres, pitting on lap 16 for new Hard (white) tyres.
• Nico started on new Hard tyres, pitting on lap 34 for new Mediums.
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