Team Renault crisis in the 2007 F1 Season?

He he... Of course, Renault big boss Flavio Briatore denies it.

Who cares? He he... His pathetic cars are nowhere to be found in the starting grid these days anyway. And if he STILL doesn't call that a crisis then, by all means, have him call it a ''dream season'' for all I care.

The 2007 Formula One season kicked off in disappointing fashion for Team Renault. He he... Aside from those stupid new uniforms, Renault has struggled to come to terms with their new Bridgestone tires.

As a result, Renault is having somewhat a dramatic loss of pace, with the Anglo/French squad roughly a second off the pace of the front-running McLarens and Ferraris. Renault, though, have also fallen behind BMW and are, at a push, only the fourth best team on the grid this season.

The reigning Constructors World Champions have also yet to claim a single podium finish this season never mind a race win. In fact after three races, the team already trails Championship-leaders McLaren by 35 points.

And yep, Briatore STILL refuses to accept that Renault has a goddamn crisis.

''To have a crisis meeting you first need a crisis, and we don't have one,'' Flavio Briatore said.

''There is a gap in our performance compared to the top teams, and we need to make that up. We will do it by working hard and trusting in our engineers to find the solutions, not by panicking.''

''We have plans for our development and for solving the problems, and we will follow them. As always, we have to balance that against designing and developing next year's car, and perhaps we will find some concepts that are relevant for this year.''

''But finding the right compromise is always one of the challenges in F1, and we have not given up on 2007.''

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Kimi Raikkonen 7/4

Fernando Alonso 7/4

Lewis Hamilton 9/2

Felipe Massa 5/2

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