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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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Felipe Massa in the Ferrari will start in pole position tomorrow for the first ever floodlit grand prix in Singapore followed by the McLaren of Lewis Hamilton in second place.
Hamilton had more than his share of trouble in the second qualifying session, aborting his first run due to running wide at the first corner and [...]

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