Cyril Abiteboul: “I live F1 physically. I don’t sleep for two nights after a race”
F1 Beyond The Grid
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🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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On this week’s episode Abiteboul discusses how the oft-talked five-year rebuild is going, the pressures of the job, the inside stories of signing Daniel Ricciardo and Esteban Ocon, and why he struggles to sleep at night...
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| 0:00.0 | May 2023, German Paper 1. Students should listen carefully to the recording. |
| 0:07.0 | Read the questions and try to ignore the churning in their stomach, the shaking in their hands, |
| 0:12.7 | or the little voice that matters. Do orbist, I.e. Diort. |
| 0:16.5 | Make sure they hear another voice that asks, are you okay? |
| 0:21.3 | That reminds them, you've got this. A proper chat can ease exam stress. |
| 0:27.2 | Britain get talking, ITV. |
| 0:57.2 | To be on the grid, presented by the new Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700. |
| 1:02.3 | My name's Tom Clarkson, and joining me this week is a Formula One team boss, |
| 1:06.6 | who, as you'll already have gathered from his introduction, is French. |
| 1:10.4 | He's also extremely articulate and in charge of one of the sports grandi teams. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm talking, of course, about Renault team principle, Cyril Habitable. |
| 1:20.4 | Cyril has been the man at the helm of Renault since they returned to F1 as a constructor in 2016, |
| 1:26.0 | but he's been a Renault employee for much longer. |
| 1:28.8 | Almost since his university days in Grenoble, in fact, cut him, and he'll probably bleed the Renault diamond. |
| 1:36.4 | He might only be 41 years old, but Cyril already has a heap of F1 experience. |
| 1:41.6 | He worked closely with Renault during his previous stint as a constructor in the Norties, |
| 1:46.0 | both in Endstone and at their engine base in Paris, and he was also team principle of Caterham F1. |
| 1:53.4 | Cyril has been tasked with rebuilding Renault's F1 operation, |
| 1:56.8 | and the team's fourth and fifth places at Monza a few weeks back were welcome boosts for drivers Daniel |
| 2:02.3 | Ricardo and Nico Holcombberg, as well as the teams at Endstone and in Paris. |
| 2:07.2 | Cyril and I caught up in Singapore last weekend to talk all things Renault, his views on their |
| 2:12.3 | current form, their much touted five-year plan, hiring Daniel Ricardo and Esteban Okon, |
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