 In this time period, Renault chose small saloon cars to represent the company in automobile racing.To do this, Renault began with work similar to that Gordini had done 10 years earlier, but at a much lower cost.The "Cléon-Fonte", now with a new hemispherical head, was pushed to producing in the 1976 R5 Alpine/Gordini; power output increased to in 1981 for the R5 Alpine/Gordini Turbo.