Editing Renault in Formula One (section)

==== 1984–1985 seasons: Post-Prost decline and works team exit ====
Prost was fired two days after the 1983 season following his public comments about the team's lack of development of the [[Renault RE40]] which resulted in his loss to Piquet and the team's loss to Ferrari in the 1983 championship. He subsequently joined [[McLaren]], while Cheever left to join [[Alfa Romeo in Formula One|Alfa Romeo]]. The team turned to Frenchman [[Patrick Tambay]] (who had left Ferrari) and Englishman [[Derek Warwick]] (formerly of [[Toleman]]) to bring them back to prominence. Despite a few good results, including Tambay giving the team its last pole position at the [[1984 French Grand Prix]] at Dijon, the team was not as competitive in {{F1|1984}} and {{F1|1985}} as in the past, with other teams doing a better job with turbo engines, or more specifically [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] and to a lesser extent [[Équipe Ligier|Ligier]]. {{F1|1985}} provided another F1 first, as the team ran a third car in [[1985 German Grand Prix|Germany]] at the new [[Nürburgring]] that featured the first in-car camera which could be viewed live by a television audience. Driven by Frenchman [[François Hesnault]], the car only lasted 8 laps before a clutch problem forced it to retire (the last race on which a team entered three cars for a race). In 1985, major financial problems emerged at Renault and the company could no longer justify the large expenses needed to maintain the racing team's competitiveness. CEO [[Georges Besse]] pared down the company's involvement in F1 from full-fledged racing team to engine supplier for the {{F1|1986}} season before taking it entirely out of F1 at the end of that year.