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Renault stalwart Alan Permane on 30 years of stars, success and struggles at Enstone

Renault stalwart Alan Permane on 30 years of stars, success and struggles at Enstone

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He joined Benetton in the late 1980s as a bottom-rung mechanic
and he’s been with the team ever since, as it morphed into
Renault then Lotus and now back to Renault. Alan Permane,
Renault’s Sporting Director, has seen and done it all in his time
at the Enstone factory. He was Michael Schumacher’s mechanic,
Giancarlo Fisichella’s race engineer, and he stepped up to lead
the team after the Crashgate scandal. He also had an
expletive-filled team radio exchange with Kimi Raikkonen in
India. Alan reveals the secrets of Renault’s success in the
mid-2000s, and how they’re planning to take on Mercedes with
Fernando Alonso in 2022.