Renault Pre-race Sepang:

After a disappointing start to the season, Renault is looking forward to gain valuable points for the championship.  A conservative approach will be the underlying strategy while maintaining good race pace and quick pit stops to maintain lead.  A good start is important as well before the first chicane, the Renault must come out on top.  This is Ibrahim's home race and so the team is working hard to give him the best result possible.  Ibrahim also produced great qualifying results for the second consecutive pole and is looking for a good result too.

How about an OOT thread?  the off-off topic thread where we can blab about anything?

I'm not very deep into F1.. more motogp fella... can someone explain how a single tire supplier would cut costs to for the cars?  Don't the tire companies eat their shipping, handling, and R&D costs themselves in order to sell more tires to the public?  In motogp, it is very interesting to see competition between tire companies...

Renault Bahrain post-race press release:

After a rookie mistake by Stevens of Torro Rosso, the race was lost by Ibrahim after a very good start and a good race pace... Kollini came from behind the pack to lead the race at one point only to have a weak race strategy impeding him for podium finish.  Renault will definitely take this lesson and produce better results in the future.