In the round-up: Nico Hulkenberg is concerned Renault won’t be able to beat McLaren to fourth place in the constructors’ championship.

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What they say McLaren out-scored Renault again in Russia, pulling 33 points ahead of them with five rounds remaining: Obviously we lost points again, I don’t know what the gap is not maybe 30. But yeah it’s a lot of wood. And obviously every race that goes by and we don’t outscore them it gets obviously more and more difficult. Whilst we want to fight in the championship we need to focus race by race and just try to get everything out of it, stay clean and smooth and I think that’s all we can do for now.

Quotes: Dieter Rencken

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