Today the Renault F1 team appeared at the FIA World Motor Sport Council hearing in Paris to face charges concerning the deliberate crash of Nelson Piquet at the Singapore Grand Prix 2008.
The Renault team were given a two-year ban, suspended until 2011 with the statement from the FIA stating;
“The World Motor Sport Council considers Renault [...]
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Renault F1 Receive 2 Year Suspended Ban, Briatore Banned For Life
Joy Ryder - Monday 21.09.09, 13:43pm
Tags: 2009 · F1 · Fernando Alonso · Flavio Briatore · Nelson Piquet Jr. · Pat Symonds · Renault · Singapore Grand Prix · The FIA · news
Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds Have Left Renault F1
Joy Ryder - Wednesday 16.09.09, 13:18pm
It has been confirmed that both Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds have both left the Renault F1 Team today and have said that they will not be contesting the charges of the fixed crash at the Singapore race, where they are accused of ordering driver Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash.
In a statement issued the team [...]
Tags: 2009 · F1 · Fernando Alonso · Flavio Briatore · Nelson Piquet Jr. · Pat Symonds · Renault · Singapore Grand Prix · The FIA · news
Nelson Piquet Stands By Claims His Crash Was Deliberate
Joy Ryder - Thursday 10.09.09, 13:49pm
Nelson Piquet is adamant that he was instructed to crash his Renault Formula One car at last year’s Singapore Grand Prix, in order to help his team-mate Fernando Alonso’s race strategy.
Piquet allegedly claims that he agreed to the crash at a pre-race meeting between himself, Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds, as he believed it was [...]
