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Briatore Out!
9/16/2009 10:02 AM
Wow, I really didn't think they would be so stupid.
Briatore and Pat Symonds are out of Renault and Renault wont contest the charges.
They actually told Piquet to wreck at Singapore last year.
UFB!
Here's the transcript although there is nothing clearly indicating that Piquet was told to crash.
Here's the link to the
Briatore article
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Briatore Out!
9/21/2009 2:37 PM
This whole debacle and the raction by what I guess are mostly British fans cracks me up.
To me Piquet is as guilty as Briatore. Waiting until after one has nothing to lose to do the right thing does not warrent immunity.
I cannot believe that there is any evidence to prosicute. If i was in Briatore's position there would have been two people in on the deal - myself and Piquet. No notes, no plan. Sure it may have sounded a bit odd to order Alonso to be fueld lite and then seen Piquet crash just after Alonso's stop, but there would have been no real proof. It would have been Piquet's word against mine.
To read the Brits comments, one would think that Alonso was the master-mind behind not only this plot by the two previous spying cases.
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Briatore Out!
9/28/2009 1:56 AM
Wow! Just listened to the pre-race show in which Peter Windsor explained this whole sorry Renault-wreck deal. Unbelievable. Renault ought to win some kind of life-time achievement award from F1 for their underhandedness. The planning was too much. Had to laugh. Alonso would have won a few points, possibly a 6th place---no better, but to win. They even had Piquet crash in a certain spot on the track where there were no lift-off cranes so the safety car would have to come out, and even timed the accident at a specific lap/time. Has to be one of the all-time greatest cheat frauds in racing. so much so that it is comical. Smart smart guys. Too smart.