Op/Ed: Briatore laughs last?

As we reported at F1B today, the first level of French court justice overturned the bans on defamed, former Renault team principle Flavio Briatore and ousted technical director Pat Symonds. The FIA had issued a ban for messrs. Briatore and Symonds for their involvement in the 2008 Singapore crash scandal.

Much has been made of [...]

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N. Technology…did it stand a chance?

N. Technology’s parent company MSC had filed suit against the FIA regarding their selection process for awarding grid positions for the 2010 season. That bid was unsuccessful, as it turns out, to prove any wrongdoing on the FIA’s part. At least the court rejected all points made by MSC.

The argument was over the [...]

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Renault Accepts FIA’s Verdict

Renault have accepted the verdict which has them on a two-year probation period for their involvement int he race-fixing incident at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
The punishment of paying the costs of the race-fix investigation of the FIA and a potential ban form the sport should they have any further infractions of equal proportion (article [...]

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Piquet: Relieved…(I’m ready to be in F1 again)

In what surely has to be a difficult situation for Nelson Piquet Jnr, the former Renault driver has released a statement on his web site regarding today’s WMSC verdict:
I am relieved that the FIA investigation has now been concluded. Those now running the Renault F1 Team took the decision, as I did, that it [...]

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FIA WMSC: The Full Verdict

At an extraordinary meeting of the World Motor Sport Council held in Paris on 21 September 2009, the ING Renault F1 team (“Renault F1”) admitted that the team had conspired with its driver Nelson Piquet Jr. to cause a deliberate crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, in breach of the International Sporting Code and [...]

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