"I guess it will feel a bit like a home race for me - I like the track and we tested there last week, so we have the car quite well sorted already," he claimed, "Obviously, the aim is to score more points and to be matching my team-mate but, as we saw in France, the midfield pack is very competitive and a lot of the cars are fighting on the same level - just a few tenths can be the difference between qualifying in eighth or 16th. And qualifying will be especially important at
Silverstone because overtaking is not easy due to the high-speed nature of the track. I will just approach the race in my normal way by pushing to the maximum all weekend and aiming for another points finish."
Although the
Renault hierarchy was disappointed with seventh and eighth places in France, technical director Bob Bell insists that Piquet's result was a positive one, and should bode well for the remainder of the campaign.
"Although we're obviously very pleased to see both cars finish the race in the points, I don't think we can be totally satisfied with the result," he insisted, "I think Nelson got as much out of the race as he was ever likely to given his starting position, but it was obviously a great disappointment that Fernando was unable to bring home a potential podium finish, which is ultimately what we were aiming for.
"I think that Nelson did a very creditable job though, and he kept improving throughout the race weekend. In the practice sessions on Friday he was quite a way off Fernando and, yet, by the end of the weekend, he was right up there with him and ultimately brought home more points.
"It was a really positive weekend for him, which is great for his self-confidence. Hopefully, it will act as a launch pad for the second half of the year as we travel to some of the European tracks that he has raced on before. I think this is a real opportunity for him to show his true colours."
