Zoom Renault mourns Toso

As was reported earlier, Dino Toso, the former aerodynamics boss at Renault's Formula One team, passed away at home on Wednesday morning.

Team chief Flavio Briatore revealed in 2006 that Italian countryman Toso, reported to have first fallen ill two years earlier, was battling with cancer.

In 2003, he began to lead the French team's aerodynamics department, where his work and guidance greatly contributed to Renault taking the drivers' and constructors' crowns of 2005 and 2006.

Earlier this year, Toso - who joined from Jordan in 2001 - stepped down as Renault's director of aerodynamic technology.

Dino Toso was selected as 'aerodynamicist of the year' in 2005. He was 39.

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Source: GMM