“WITNESS X’ TAKES BRIATORE / SYMONDS DOWN!

The FIA has released the evidence used to render a verdict against Renault F1, Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds yesterday at the extraordinary meeting of the World Motor Sport Council. Among the evidence is a majority of the documents the FIA felt compelled to leak to the press a week or so prior the [...]

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Gracia: Briatore Ban Excessive

The Spanish motorsport federation boss Carlos Gracia has certianly been vocal this week regarding the Renault case. If you will recall, Gracia was perplexed by the immunity given to Nelson Piquet Jnr over his part int he race-fixing incident of 2008. We mentioned his views on the matter here.
Today Mr. Gracia has taken [...]

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Piquet Softens Alonso Allegations; The Art of Victimology

After exclaiming that Fernando Alonso “knew everything” about the Singapore race-fix; Nelson Piquet Snr has backed off the allegation. It seems the FIA feel they have no compelling evidence to suggest the two-time world champion from Spain had anything to do with the race-fixing incident and Piquet clarified his comment to the Telegraph:
“All I [...]

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Piquet, Flavio, Renault and the FIA: It’s Getting Damned Ugly

It’s getting ugly. Period. The Renault race-fix allegations and subsequent World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) hearing next Monday is bringing the worst out of men and machine—literally. The Piquet’s (Nelson Snr. and Nelson Jnr.) have lashed out at Flavio Briatore, Pat Symonds, Fernando Alonso and Renault for firing young Nelson Jnr. this [...]

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Alonso: Ignorance is bliss

The standard press conference prior to the Italian Grand Prix was sure to be rife with Renault race-fix allegations for Fernando Alonso. Alonso fielded several questions and maintained that he was not going to address the allegations against Renault by former employee Nelson Piquet Jnr.
Alonso said that he was unaware of any race-fixing and [...]

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