Renault will try a new set-up on its Formula 1 cars at this weekend’s British Grand Prix as it looks to avoid a repeat of its “extreme” strugg🤪les in Austria.

The French squad has fallen 20 points behind current midfield leaders McLꦆaren after both Nico Hulkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo finished outside of the points at the Au♒strian Grand Prix.

The mysteriously poor showing from the team led Ricciardo to suggest Renault could have a fundamental ♏issue with its 2019 challenger. Speaking at Silverstone, teammate Hulkenberg elaborated on Renault’s struggles further.

“Austriꩲa was a bit more extreme than just being at the back of the midfield,” Hu💙lkenberg said.

“We had some issues and𒐪 problems there that we’ve never really faced this season. So that was a bit exceptional and out of the ordinary. A little bit also still unex🃏plained.

“It is a little💛 bit of a funny feeling there because every year I’ve been there with Renault there is something th🔜ere with our car and the track just does not fit well.

“It does not work. So I am quite hopeful that it was track related, and things will b𓆏e back t🌜o normal here.”

Hulkenberg confirmed&nbs🧔p;Renault has no new updates for this weekend’s race at Silverstone but will instead trail a completely new set-up it has not previously used this year.

“Th🌃ere are no updates, but we are trying different stuff with the set-up and how we run the car compared to previous weeks,” he explained.

“It’s quite a different starting point, and also different across the cars to cover a lot of bases and try to exploit more of the set-up envelope of the car.

“We are going to something that we haveඣ not run this year, so far. A different set-up.”

𝔍Ricciardo added: "It wasn’t a fun one for us really. We obviously got pretty deep into it after and tried to figure out why we were off the pace all weekend.

"Definite🌱ly feel we learned some things with set-up and I think we kind of just started in a direction which we kept pursuing from Friday, thinking it was the right way to go, but I think in hindsight it wasn’t. It’s probably more just a set-up misdirection we went for as opposed to anything crazy we found on the car.

"I was hoping to find a cracked chassis or something like that! I think the car d✱oes have a little bit of a sweet spot and I think we had worked towards that the last few weekends, getting those Q3s and building that confidence within myself and that momentum, but we kind of shifted a little bit away from that in Austria, for reasons that seemed to make sense at the time from a set-up point of view and all that.

"I think we kind of moved away from something we’d got to know but we’l🀅l try to bring it back this weekend for Silverstone and go back to what we know."