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Renault has been associated with Formula One as both constructor and engine supplier for various periods since 1977. In 1977, the company entered Formula One as a constructor, introducing the turbo engine to Formula One in its first car, the Renault RS01. In 1983, Renault began supplying engines to other teams. Although the Renault team won races and competed for world titles, it withdrew at the end of . Renault continued supplying engines to other teams until 1986, then again from 1989 to 1997. Renault returned to Formula One in 2000 when it acquired the Enstone-based Benetton Formula team (formerly Toleman Motorsport), a team which had won the Drivers' Championship in 1994 and both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships in 1995. For the first two seasons under Renault, the team continued to be called "Benetton Formula" and used "Benetton" as their constructor name. In 2002 Renault re-branded the team as the "Renault F1 Team" and started to use "Renault" as its constructor name, and subsequently won both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships two years in a row, in 2005 and 2006. At the end of 2009, the Renault car company sold a 75% stake in the team to the Genii Capital investment company. At the end of 2010, Renault sold its remaining 25% share to Genii, which then decided to enter into an alignment with Group Lotus. For the 2011 Formula One season the team competed under the name ''Lotus Renault GP'', which was the last year that the name "Renault" was used as a constructor name in Formula One. Following the withdrawal of the Renault car company and the increased involvement of Lotus, the Enstone team was renamed as Lotus F1 Team in 2012. The team continues to be coordinated from its UK base at Enstone, Oxfordshire where the chassis are designed and built. The team continued to use engines supplied by Renault until the end of the 2014 Formula One season. Renault has also supplied engines to some other teams, including Team Lotus (1983–1987), Benetton Formula (1995–1997) and Williams F1 (1989–1997, 2012–13). In addition to its two own team F1 World Constructors' Championships (, ) and two Drivers' Championships, as an engine supplier, Renault has contributed to nine other World Drivers' Championships〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://renaultsportf1.com/Titles-and-Statistics.html )〕 ( for Nigel Mansell, for Alain Prost, for Michael Schumacher, for Damon Hill, for Jacques Villeneuve and - for Sebastian Vettel) and ten World Constructors' Championships〔 (–, – for Williams F1, for Benetton Formula and – for Red Bull Racing). The engine supply has continued during periods when Renault was not active as a constructor in its own right. It has collected over 160 wins as engine supplier, ranking third in Formula One history. ==Constructor== Renault had some involvement in early motorsport, including Ferenc Szisz winning the first French Grand Prix. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Renault in Formula One」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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