Renault get a 2 year suspended ban

[veeten]

First McLaren's $100 Million fine, and now Renault gets a 2-year ban.

Don't mess with the FIA, they will have your 'nuts' in a pretty big vice and are more-than-willing to turn the screw.

[SGWilko]

First McLaren's $100 Million fine, and now Renault gets a 2-year ban.

Yes, you can see the consistency oozing out onto the Place de la Concorde, can't you.....

[SGWilko]

their right to work which is situated above anything their contracts with Flav might contain.

Thanks, makes perfect sense.

[veeten]

Personally, I believe this makes Goshn's decision about staying in Formula 1 all the easier.

Now, it'll be down to 4 manufacturers and teams scrambling to find engine deals for '10 and beyond.

[SGWilko]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78772

We sincerely hope that we can soon put this matter behind us and focus constructively on the future. We will issue further information in the next few days

I bet they quit....

[Mark]

As a point of order. It's not a 2 year ban. It's a permanent ban, suspended for 2 years. So if Renault do anything in the next two years they are banned permanently.

[Valve Bounce]

First McLaren's $100 Million fine, and now Renault gets a 2-year ban.

Don't mess with the FIA, they will have your 'nuts' in a pretty big vice and are more-than-willing to turn the screw.

..........or whip your butt

[wedge]

Well, we can definitely rule out Flav taking over Renault if they decide to leave F1.

I wonder if Pat Symonds will be back in F1? He'll be in his 60s!

[F1boat]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78772



I bet they quit....

Well, if they quit, I will miss them but in the other hand I will be how to say... smug to see F1 with two or three engines next year, as Toyota will likely quit as well. This oh-so-Puritan view, bans for life etc, I know that most people are happy with the fact that Flav and Ron are gone, but this is no church, really. Cheating should be punished, but this quest for purity... as Irvine said, everybody cheats. I believe him. So with this purity ***, I hope that it will end with the next FIA president. If they catch you - DQ for the rest of the year and finish with this. JMO.

[I am evil Homer]

Symonds is a clever guy but he really messed up in his assumption that Flav was still Mr Teflon. Bye bye Flav...you won't be missed by me. as for the "suspended ban" it means nothing, IMO Renault got off lightly by shifting all blame to Flav.