Singapore 2008: Briatore and Symmonds resign

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Originally Posted by leopardsleeping

I'd rather have opinion that team order is internal affair of teams.

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Except that it would be a clear breach of therules. "39.1: Team orders which interfere with a race result are prohibited". That's black and white.

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The occurrence has been good a while, hence this case is already beyond its limitation period.

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Where is this specified? Even civil cases have (in the UK) a six-year limitation period. Singapore was barely one year ago. Just because some time has passed doesn't mean that it should all be forgotten if new evidence comes to light.

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

None of this should be "swept under the carpet". F1 as a sport needs to demonstrate to the wider world that it's capable of dealing with any allegation in a fair and transparent way. There's enough accusations flying around already damaging the sport, the last thing we need is a whitewash or some dodgy deal made with a secret handshake.

If there's race-fixing or corruption in the sport it should be exposed and flushed out. If that means the exit of an otherwise successful team then so be it.

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Completely agree.

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Comments from the drivers in Thursday's press conference:


http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78465

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There were 3 wise answers and 2 not so bright ones.

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AUTOSPORT understands that part of the evidence that has been submitted to the FIA ahead of the hearing is a letter that Briatore sent to Piquet Sr. on July 28 - two days after Max Mosley had been informed of the Singapore events but two days prior to Piquet Jr. making his official testimony to the governing body.
In the letter, a copy of which has been seen by AUTOSPORT, Briatore rigorously denies any suggestion that Piquet was asked to crash on purpose – and suggests that the matter has been brought to light purely to ‘blackmail' him into renewing the Brazilian's driver's contract.

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78467

Both sides seem intent on using the media to air their dirty laundry, instead of waiting until the 21st for the proper hearing. :s

I'm sick of all the crap happening in F1 :down:

Time to find another formula to watch.

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Originally Posted by ioan

There were 3 wise answers and 2 not so bright ones.

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I think 2 were wise and 3 not so bright. "and hopefully it will never happen again"... what? what happened? we haven't seen any proof yet. Right? It's interesting how angry some people get around here without any proof.

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

Both sides seem intent on using the media to air their dirty laundry, instead of waiting until the 21st for the proper hearing. :s

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This is the way things are done in this highly mediated (or is that mediatised ?) age.
Each side tries to put the public pressure on the other side no matter if they are guilty or not. Common sense long went down the drain. :\

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Originally Posted by eu

I think 2 were wise and 3 not so bright. "and hopefully it will never happen again"... what? what happened? we haven't seen any proof yet. Right? It's interesting how angry some people get around here without any proof.

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IMO those who restrained from comments (given that is not their job to judge this and also they probably don't know too much about anyway) did it the right way.

Rubens just contradicted himslef in big style, First he moans about how he was pressured by Todt into something he didn't want to do than he goes and takes Flavio's part. :s

Liuzzi just goes in circles stating that it's difficult to believe. :crazy:

This snippet from an article from todays 'Times Online';

Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One commercial rights-holder, told The Times that Piquet informed him he was going to tell the FIA about the affair as long ago as the Monaco Grand Prix at the end of May.

According to Ecclestone, Piquet has told the FIA that it was Ecclestone who encouraged the driver to follow through on a course of action that would damage Briatore, but the promoter denied this.

“At no time did I tell him to f*** Flavio,” Ecclestone said last night. “He said he was going to do it and I simply said, ‘There is no use you saying you are going to do something — either do it or stop talking about it.’ To be honest, I genuinely believed at that time that he would not do it.”

So, let me get this right, Bernie new about this earlier this year, and said nothing.

WHAT IS GOING ON???

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