In 1972, after an agreement was reached with Elf, François Castaing, technical director of Renault Gordini, was given the go-ahead to build a 2-litre engine that could be used in a "sports" model and then in Formula 2.
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Nowadays the engine's are produced in the engine manufacturing facility at Cléon, near to Rouen in Normandy.