Nelson Piquet Jr.
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 within his interests to do so.
Today a copy of the statement sent to the FIA back in July , said to be from Nelson Piquet Jr. appeared on a website. The statement claims that Briatore even told the Brazilian driver, which corner to crash on to cause the safety car deployment.
The hearing for the case is set to take place on September 21st in Paris, with Bernie Ecclestone already warning that if found guilty, there would be serious consequences for both Piquet and the Renault team.
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