Renault F1 boss Cyril Abiteboul is keen to downplay any talk of Robert Kubica forging a permanent return to the team after his successful recent test in a 2012 F1 car at Valencia.
A media suggestion that the Pole would even take part in an FP1 session at Monza stoked the fires as current driver Jolyon Palmer continues to struggle. Abiteboul insisted in Baku that FP1 running was not on the cards.
“Easy answer on the last one,” he said. “No, absolutely not. I don’t know where this is coming from and I can completely wipe that one out.