Renault Confident of Winning Two More Races

Renault are confident of scoring at least two more victories this season, according to team boss Flavio Briatore.

"From now to the end [of the season] I count on winning two, better if three, races. In Hungary and Brazil we can do it," Briatore was quoted as saying by La Repubblica newspaper.

The French squad are currently in second place in the Constructors' Championship, having been the only team other than Ferrari to win a race this year. Italian Jarno Trulli scored his maiden Grand Prix win in May, when he finished first in Monaco.

Trulli's teammate Fernando Alonso came close to repeating the feat at last weekend's French Grand Prix, but the Spaniard had to settle for second place behind the dominant Michael Schumacher, who has won nine races so far.

Renault could have occupied the final two spots of the podium in France but for an error by Trulli on the final lap of the race which allowed Schumacher's teammate Rubens Barrichello to pass him just two corners from the end.

"It's a shame we have thrown away two podiums in the last two races," said Briatore, referring to Alonso's accident at the United States Grand Prix while the Spaniard was running in third place.

"We could have had one of our drivers between the two Ferrari guys. Trulli made a mistake last Sunday, but I didn't tell him off: he's big enough to realize the error he's made. "A podium can't be lost that way, at the last turn. He already made an error like that in Indy, when he let Sato pass him. For us, to end up on the podium in the United States and to have two drivers on the one in our home race, in France, would have been a real coup."