RS27 – AUSmotive.com

Renault has been making Formula 1 engines since 1977. It turns out le chaps from the Viry-ChaÌ‚tillon factory are bloody good at it too. The latest title for Red Bull Racing means Renault engines have now powered teams to a total of 12 constructors’ championships.

Naturally, then, Renault wants to make good on its promise of incorporating “motorsport into its global marketing and technical development strategy”.

In this brief TVC we get to see how marketing and F1 go hand in hand. It’s a slick ad, that’s for sure, as to how believable it is that every road car in the Renault range has “world champion technology as standard”, well, we’ll let you be the judge of that.

VIDEO: Revving the tits off a Red Bull

As you know last weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix was the last Formula 1 race for Mark Webber. But it was also the last grand prix for the 2.4 litre naturally aspirated V8 engines we’ve become used to in recent years.

In the Red Bull garage the team decided to send off their Renault RS27 engines with a bang. With its limiter removed the team tried their very best to blow the engine in Mark’s car to pieces. Even at 22,000rpm the engine wouldn’t give up.

It was a spectacularly ear splitting performance from the V8 and the glowing exhausts were equally as impressive. It goes to show how reliable Formula 1 has become as well. Something we’re not so sure we’ll see in Melbourne when the grid first lines up with 1.6 litre turbocharged V6 “power units”.