When Renault started in Formula One, 40 years ago, they equipped their car - the RS01 - with a revolutionary – but unstable - turbo-charged engine. So the yellow RS01 often entered the stands lane streaming white smoke. Ken Tyrrell, the boss of the eponymous team, seeing the smoking car pass in front of his garage, yelled out the nickname “Yellow Teapot” as a joke. The expression was quickly adopted and the RS01 was thereafter nicknamed The Yellow Teapot. But Renault kept on working…and finally ...