Thursday, September 17, 2009

Key Evidence in Renault F1 Singapore Controversy

Flavio Briatore, Renault F1 team principal is quite in a a fix after Nelson Piquet Jr, the team's former driver, who has claimed that he was asked by the team to crash in Singapore night race, and PAt Symonds, the Renault director of engineering, were offered immunity by the FIA in return for full disclosure of what went on at the night race last September.

The figure now in the unfolding of this whole drama is Symonds, who is alleged to have given Piquet detailed instructions about when and where to crash. Symonds was told by FIA twice that he could escape punishment if he provided information about the incident.

The whole scenario just put Symonds in a difficult situation. If he is going to stand by Briatore, he and the Italian risk being banned from F1 if they are found guilty; if he testifies in exchange for immunity,he may be perceived by others as only trying to save his own skin at the team's expense.

Quite a fix he is in, indeed.

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