F1Technical.net (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
According to the British newspaper 'The Guardian', Pat Symonds is joining Flavio Briatore's appeal against his motorsport ban. Symonds was banned by the FIA for five years, while Briatore received a life ban for the Singapore 2008 crash-gate scandal.
QPR REPORT (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
• Renault consider options for continued participation • French car-maker will announce verdict before end of year Renault have postponed making an official decision on whether or not to follow Honda, BMW and Toyota out of formula one until the end of the year. The matter was discussed at a major board meeting in Paris on Wednesday. "You will have to be patient," Renault's chief...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
• Former Renault chief takes case to French court • Italian calls suspension 'disproportionate and illegal' Flavio Briatore, banned for life from motor sport after being found guilty of involvement in the Crashgate affair, will take legal action against the FIA, the international motor sports federation, in an attempt to challenge the suspension handed down last month for his part in the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
• Massa had claimed it was a 'certainty' that Alonso knew • Brazilian says he will have no problem with future team-mate Felipe Massa has been forced to backtrack over comments he made claiming his future Ferrari team-mate Fernando Alonso knew all along about the Singapore race-fixing scandal. Alonso has signed a three-year deal to replace Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari, starting in 2010, and...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Renault’s crash-happy dismissed Formula One driver is set to do something very different after his brief, unhappy career in single-seaters: drive a Toyota Tundra in circles. Poor Nelsinho! Not only did he have to drive under the shadow of a famous father and suffer the intrigues of an unhinged Flavio Briatore , someone has now assembled an unflattering compilation of his short career in Formula...
QPR REPORT (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
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Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Nelsinho Piquet has answered those who claim he is just as guilty as Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds over 'Singapore-gate' - arguing that 'no-one has been punished more than I have'...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Rumormill Crashing in Formula One is taken pretty seriously. Especially if you did it on purpose. Which goes a long way towards explaining why the motorsport community is calling for the blood of Nelson Piquet Jr. The disgraced Renault driver was, in the end, the perpetrator of the so-called Crashgate affair. But while his boss and manager Flavio...
Rediscover Formula One (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Last week was dramatic as far as formula one controversies go, Renault got a 2 year suspended ban from formula one. Pat Symonds got a 5 year ban from formula one and flamboyant Flavio Briatore got a lifetime ban from the sport of formula one. But there were 2 peculiarities. First one being the suspended sentence for Renault, kind of reminds on McLaren punishments during the spygate. Even over there...
Mark J Daniels - The Tragic Column (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Fernando Alonso isn’t very good at keeping secrets, is he? First, the story about him moving from Renault to McLaren for the 2007 season hit the headlines before the dust had even settled over the 2005 championship, and for the best part of this year rumours have been circulating that he’s off to Ferrari. Well rumour no more – the announcement has been made today that Fernando Alonso...
Perrys Motor Sales (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
IS it right for Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds to take the rap for the Crashgate affair? Of course it is. Would it be right for the rest of the Renault team to be penalised? No. Should race fans boycott Renault showrooms? No. What was done was terrible, an appalling act of premeditated recklessness and the [...]
hectorshona (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Soon after being related to one of the most shocking scandals of Motorsport, the Renault has been dumped by sponsors ING and Mutua Madrilena. Recently, Renault has been offered a penalty of suspended disqualification from Formula one. the decision was a result of the involvement of team principal Flavio Briatore, executive director of engineering Pat Symonds as well as driver Nelson Piquet Junior for...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Singapore: Renault's French novice driver Romain Grosjean brought Singapore Grand Prix first practice to a halt by crashing in the same place Nelson Piquet deliberately crashed in the race-fixing scam orchestrated by Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pat Symonds in 2008.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Of all the dramatis personae in what is now widely accepted as the greatest sporting scandal of them all, Fernando Alonso has emerged the most squeaky clean. Flavio Briatore's fall was spectacular. Pat Symonds, Renault's chief engineer, is in exile from Formula One. Nelson Piquet Jr, who crashed his car deliberately, was granted immunity but must now wait to discover if there is a team bold enough...
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habser | 09/23/2009
The FIA imposed a two-year suspended ban on Renault for being involved in fixing the result of last year’s Singapore Grand Prix. Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds have received bans from motorsport as well. FIA’s World Motor Sport Council members were in a meeting in Paris recently.
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