Buzzin F1 – Formula One Blog

According to the BBC Sports site, the Renault F1 team have secured a deal to see them on the grid for the 2010 Formula One Championship.
The Renault team will keep a 25% shareholding after it has been announced that a new buyer has been found with an official announcement due next week.
A final decision concerning [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The Formula One Renault team, have today announced that Nelson Piquet Jr. has now been released from his contract with the team with Swiss-Frenchman Romain Grosjean taking his place in the cockpit for the remainder of the season.
The 23-year-old is the teams third driver and drove a Formula One car for the first time at [...]

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