
Although the Renault team won races and competed for world titles, it was as a supplier of engines to the Benetton and Williams teams in the 1990s that Renault first tasted world championship success.

Renault introduced the turbo engine to Formula One when they debuted their first car, the Renault RS01 at Silverstone in 1977. Since then Renault has competed in Formula One as an engine supplier and as a car builder from the late 1970s to 2021, with many breaks. Ferenc Szisz won the first French Grand Prix at the wheel of a Renault. In December of 2010, Renault sold their remaining part of the Formula One team. Renault F1 was a Formula One racing team owned by the Renault company. Fernando Alonso driving for Renault F1 in 2009.
