Renault F1 is the
Renault company's
Formula One racing team. Renault has competed in Formula One (originally via subsidiary
Renault Sport), both as an engine supplier and as a constructor from the late
1970s to the present day, with several breaks. Renault introduced the
turbo engine to Formula One when they debuted their first car, the
Renault RS01 at
Silverstone in . Although the Renault team won races and competed for world titles, it was as a supplier of normally aspirated engines to the
Benetton and
Williams teams in the
1990s that Renault first tasted world championship success. Renault returned to the category as a constructor in by taking over the Benetton team, which was renamed Renault in . Their first championship as a constructor was achieved in ; the same year that they won their first drivers' championship with former test driver,
Fernando Alonso, repeating that feat in .
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