Singapore 2008: Briatore and Symmonds resign

http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/story/?id=290536

this looks like it will be bigger then spygate - liegate -

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It appears Nelson Piquet Jr. is responsible for the "new evidence" the FIA is using against Renault in the race fixing allegations related to last year's Singapore Grand Prix.

Piquet reportedly told F1 officials he agreed to the idea because he was worried about his future within the team as he had no contract yet for 2009.
Meanwhile, according to Autosprint magazine, telemetry from Piquet's car shows he continued to accelerate through Turn 17 on the lap he crashed despite his rear wheels losing grip. On previous laps, the data showed him easing off the accelerator to compenstate for the loss of grip.

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What's the old saying, something like:

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.

Oh dear, from the look of things, heads are gonna roll on this one. :mad:

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Originally Posted by fousto

they only proof they could have would be Piquet talking sh!t. But I guess in the land of Islam you are guilty until proven innocent. So they will try and deball Flavio and he will buy the Italian mafia who will sever the FIA is many places and life will go on in the name of money and power with the little twerps always trying to cause problems.

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I think we are very tolerant, you are innocent although proven guilty... ;)

For most of the times though, a thing walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is indeed a duck.

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Originally Posted by leopardsleeping

I think we are very tolerant, you are innocent although proven guilty... ;)

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Isn't it the other way around in f1? :D

Flavio is saying that Piquet alone suggested this, and that Renault wanted no part of this. However, I can see no other possible explanation for Alonso's phenomenally heavy fuel load at his first stop other than the team being confident of a safety car period.

This raises the possibility of Alonso himself having some prior knowledge. He's not an idiot, and would have known that his qualifying fuel load gave him absolutely zero chance of a decent result unless there was an interruption to the race, just after his first stop.

Purely circumstantial, but I can't help thinking back to his reaction in the holding area just before the podium ceremony. For somebody who had just won his first race of the year after half a season of struggle, he looked positively subdued. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I find it difficult to believe that he wouldn't have had some inkling that his victory wasn't entirely down to luck. :s

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Originally Posted by DexDexter

Isn't it the other way around in f1? :D

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we are So Fine :)

It's a story of a man
Who works as hard as he can
Just to be a man who stands on his own

For those doesn't know what was it about, it was only small pick of So Fine from GNR ...

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

Flavio is saying that Piquet alone suggested this, and that Renault wanted no part of this. However, I can see no other possible explanation for Alonso's phenomenally heavy fuel load at his first stop other than the team being confident of a safety car period.

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Flav said such idea was never talked about.
Symonds says that it was Piquet's idea.
Their contradictory stories are already more than enough to question the integrity of their words.
When you add the strange Alonso strategy, and I doubt it was Piquet who decided Alonso's furl load for the race day, it's obvious that the liar isn't Jr.

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Originally Posted by ioan

Flav said such idea was never talked about.
Symonds says that it was Piquet's idea.
Their contradictory stories are already more than enough to question the integrity of their words.
When you add the strange Alonso strategy, and I doubt it was Piquet who decided Alonso's furl load for the race day, it's obvious that the liar isn't Jr.

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Yes - it looks that Nelson Piquet is telling the true story and it’s clear that there is a serious risk for the negative consequences to every one involved - it's there also for Nelson. How or if it will affect even Alonsos carrier will the future show – but I hope he is not involved. When Symonds says that it was Piquet's idea doesn’t really changes or help – it’s not interesting who came with the idea - sadly we can say now that it’s clear that an idea was there.. sad sad..