JANUARY 9, 2003
McNish and Renault
It is believed that with Renault's decision to restrict its testing to race weekends (with only 10 other days allowed) convinced the engineers of the need to find a driver with a lot of F1 experience and McNish fits the bill very neatly. The team is still under pressure to have a Frenchman somehow involved and so it is expected that Franck Montagny will be named as a secondary test driver although it remains to be seen how much mileage that will entail. The other man in the running for the Renault test drive was Sebastian Bourdais but it seems he is going off to race in America, probably with Newman Haas in Champ Cars.