Symonds: Renault must stay aggressive

The former world champions have yet to finish on the podium this year and, although both Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet scored points in the French Grand Prix, the result was much less than the team expected after a strong showing in qualifying.

But despite having lost ground to main rivals Red Bull Racing and Toyota in recent races, Symonds is adamant that his team cannot change their approach and go conservative just to take safe positions.

When asked what his team planned to do to close down on those ahead of them in the constructors' championship, Symonds said: "You don't do anything for that situation. You race for the best constructors' position.

"So we have just got to keep on pushing, we don't alter anything - what we are doing, the aggressive development and aggressive racing, is what we will keep on doing. Until the car is quicker, life is not going to be easy."

Symonds is confident that the R28 is quicker that the results so far this season indicate - and even better than they showed in the French Grand Prix.

"For some reason we had a poor first stint. We had underestimated the pace of (Jarno) Trulli, even though in the latter stints we were able to match his pace fuel corrected.

"But by then we were on quite a different strategy which wasn't optimum. The first stint just killed us and we don't know why. It just didn't seem to have the grip.

"We are not happy. Two cars in the points is good, but we do feel there is more. While we have been saying for a while that the car is better but we are not seeing its potential, I still don't think we saw its potential in France. Even though we've got two cars in the points, we are capable of more than that."