Renault Sport

Renault Sport Technologies (commonly known as Renault Sport, Renaultsport or RST) is the France motorsport division of Renault. Renault Sport was responsible for Renault's sports car racing entries during the 1970s, including their win at the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans race with the Renault Alpine A442.

Actual Renault's Formula One team, Renault F1 in the 2000s, is not a part of Renault Sport though active in Formula One until the 1990s.

Organisation

*Manufacturer of limited edition sports models (with Alpine) e.g. the Mégane Renault Sport and Renaultsport Clio 197.
*Competitor in motorsport events (excluding Formula One), e.g.
**Rally and track cars
**Organisation of single-model vehicle championships
*Organiser or/and sponsor of the Formula Renault national championships.
*Organiser of the World Series by Renault: World Series Formula Renault 3.5, Eurocup Mégane Trophy and Eurocup Formula Renault
*Renault Merchandising - For the sale of Renault sport related merchandise.
*Equal shareholder in SMA; an aircraft engine manufacturer, an alliance of RST, EADS and SAFRAN.

Championships

Renault Sport organizes several national and international One-make racing championships.
* Formula Renault 3.0L, 2.0L and 1.6L
* Renault Cup and Renault Eurocup
* Renault Maxi
* Dacia Logan Cup

Renault in motorsport

Renault is also involved in other racing series but not as Renault Sport.
*Renault Clio
** French Super Production Championship
** Belgian Procar Championship
** BTCC with Renault Clio Williams
** Endurance Touring Car Series
*Renault Mégane
** TC2000 Argentina (since 1984) [ [http://www.tc2000.com.ar/historia.php TC2000 Historia] "tc2000.com.ar"]
*Renault Spider :
** Spanish GT Championship (1999?-2000?)
*Renault 8 Gordini :
** Springbok Series (1966-1971) [ [http://www.classicscars.com/wspr/results/spring/nf_spring_home.html Springbok Series] "classicscars.com"]
*Renault 4CV
**24 hours of Le Mans (1949-1954) [ [http://www.classicscars.com/wspr/results/lemans/nf_lemans_home.html 24 Hours of Le Mans] "classicscars.com"]
**Renault Alpine A110 In 1971 Alpine achieved a 1-2-3 finish in the Monte Carlo rally, using cars with engines derived from the Renault R16. In 1973, they repeated the 1-2-3 Monte Carlo result and went on to win the World Rally championship outright [ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_%28car%29] "wikipedia.org"]

ee also

* Mecachrome

References

External links

* [http://www.renault-sport.com/en/ Renault Sport official website]
* [http://www.clio16valver.co.uk/ Clio 16v official owners club]
* [http://www.renaultsport.co.uk Renault Sport UK official website]
* [http://www.meganesport.net Renaultsport Megane range site]