Printable View
Make yourself a copy and prepare for a long and interesting read containing Jr's testimony, Symonds interrogatory, telemetry data and the transcript of an interesting radio discussion between Symonds and Alonso's race engineer where Symonds is trying to convince the engineer that pitting on lap 12 is the right thing to do.
Don't know who wrote this article, I just ran into it, but at least it contains most of what it's know until now.
http://axisofoversteer.com/blog/docu...%20Of%20PK.pdf
Certainly in Austria, it is possible to send a "statement of fact" to the prosecutor's office and unless it's totally bogus, the authorities have to look into it and start an investigation.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
As to why Renault is doing that in France and not Switzerland: Do you seriously think you can just go to the authorities in any country of your choice and ask them to start a criminal investigation even if that country is in no way involved in it? Usually in criminal law, a country has to have jurisdiction to start an investigation. Most commonly, jurisdiction lies with the country where either the (alleged) criminal act was committed or the result of the crime occured or should have occured. As the Piquets allegedly tried to blackmail Renault, which is a French company, it seems to be France would have jurisdiction. Switzerland certainly doesn't, unless the alleged blackmailing attempt took place there.
And what Jurisdiction does France have over the Singapore GP or over Piquet?!Quote:
Originally Posted by gm99
And what kind of criminal act has Piquet committed against Renault to allow them to even ask for a criminal investigation?
Anyway even if by chance they are found to be at fault by the French court the Piquets can start their own counter legal action in a Brazilian court and so on. I still stand by my opinion that Renault are trying to intimidate the Piquets whom I doubt that feel very much intimidated given the situation is now anyway driven by the FIA and not themselves.
The investigation apparently is not about the Singapore GP, but about an alleged (as I wrote repeatedly) blackmail attempt by the Piquets some time later-pressumably shortly before they went to the FIA this July - that they would spill the beans on Singapore unless Jr. was allowed to continue to drive for Renault throughout 2009.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
http://www.crash.net/f1/news/152146/...il_claims.html
France's jurisdiction would, as I have tried to point out already, be based on a French company (Renault) being the victim of said blackmail attempt.
Thanks for finding that, great read :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Alleged race fixing, blackmail, immunity, leaks, court cases...
A fine mess this is :rolleyes:
That begs the question why didn't Renault start this legal action back then if they were REALLY trying to blackmail them?!Quote:
Originally Posted by gm99
There's to many questions asked and way to few answers from the Renault camp.
This really is a key to all of this. Taking all these fragments of info and putting them together we can infer that because PK jnr told Bernie back in Monaco we can suggest that the possible blackmail happened sometime shortly after that. Therefore there can only be two possible reasons IMO that Renault did not sack PK straight away and start law suits there and then;Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
1. There was NO blackmail attempt
2. Renault believed there was no evidence to prove the PK's claims.
As I do not believe Renault could have failed to know that the radio logs/data from the crash all pointed the finger straight at Renault logic dictates there never was a blackmail attempt.
Its all wild guess work of course but there's no smoke with out fire as the old expression goes.
Looks like Piquet got some balls at least comparable with those of Lewy:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78511Quote:
GO TO EARLIER STORY GO TO THE NEWS INDEX GO TO NEXT STORY
Piquet 'will not be bullied' by Renault
By Pablo Elizalde Friday, September 11th 2009, 15:53 GMT
Nelson Piquet says he will not be "bullied again into making a decision I regret" after claiming he has nothing to fear following his accusations against the Renault team.
The French squad announced on Friday that it was launching criminal action against Piquet and his father, accusing the duo of attempting to blackmail the team with accusations of race-fixing at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
On Friday afternoon, Piquet Jr issued a statement saying he has nothing to fear despite Renault's legal action, the Brazilian claiming he had told the FIA the truth.
"Regarding the current FIA investigation, I confirm that I have co-operated fully and honestly with the sport's governing body," said Piquet in the statement.
"Because I am telling the truth I have nothing to fear, whether from the ING Renault Team or Mr Briatore and whilst I am well aware of the power and influence of those being investigated, and the vast resources at their disposal, I will not be bullied again into making a decision I regret.
"I have every confidence in the FIA investigation and World Motor Sport Council and I will be making no further comment until the conclusion of the hearing of 21 September 2009."
Zowey Cavey! This is better than Crossroads and Take The High Road put together!!!! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan