René Descartes | René Char | René Magritte | François-René de Chateaubriand | René Goscinny | Leon René | René Jacobs | Rene Daalder | Rene Russo | René Lévesque | Rene Requiestas | René Kollo | René Clausen | René Clair | Rene Portland | René Clemencic | Rene Auberjonois | René Higuita | Rene Goulet | René Girard | François-René de La Tour du Pin, Chambly de La Charce | Sherie Rene Scott | René Sergent | René Rémond | René Lussier | René Laennec | René II, Duke of Lorraine | Rene d'Harnoncourt | René de La Tour du Pin | Otis René |
Renault held on to team leader Alain Prost but lost René Arnoux to Ferrari, and poached Cheever from Ligier to replace him (the rumor mill was that Renault wanted to sell more cars in North America and signing Phoenix native Cheever to the factory team was a good promotional tool).
By lap 23 he had a three second lead before coming up to lap the Eurobrun of Stefano Modena and the Ligier of notorious blocker René Arnoux.
Hugues de Chaunac has revealed many drivers with Oreca, most of them French, such as Jacques Laffite, Patrick Tambay, René Arnoux, Alain Prost or also Yannick Dalmas, Jean Alesi and Yvan Muller.
The 1981 event saw a tremendous battle between Jones and rising star Alain Prost in a Renault, with Jones passing Prost in the stadium due to interference by Prost's backmarker teammate Rene Arnoux; but the race was won by Brazilian Nelson Piquet after Jones went into the pits with problems with his Williams.