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# Video: Was Ricciardo worth $50million for Renault?
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/video-was-ricciardo-worth-50million-for-renault/
- Published: 2021-01-06T17:19:28.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T17:25:17.000Z
- Description: Renault spent $50 million on Daniel Ricciardo over the last two years as part of its grand plan to return to the sharp end of the Formula 1 grid – which didn’t exactly go to plan. Was it all money well spent?
- Author: Matt Beer
- Tags: Formula 1, #video, #image-center-center

Over the course of two years, Renault has spent $50million on Daniel Ricciardo spearheading its Formula 1 team in its pursuit to return to the front of the grid.

Ultimately, that return hasn’t really come to fruition and now Ricciardo is bound for McLaren in the next phase of his post-Red Bull career. So was all that money well spent?

In this video, Edd Straw looks at the key factors that dictate how we should judge the Ricciardo/Renault partnership from 2019/20 to work out if it was a worthwhile investment for the team.