Singapore 2008: Briatore and Symmonds resign

If Renault wanted to distance themselves from Flav and Pat and publicly dismiss them, a'la McLaren/Dave Ryan, rather than letting them resign of their own accord?

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Can the thread title be changed to show that they were fired and didn't resign? It's the truth after all.

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Were they though? The Renault statement only says that they've parted company.

It's like the old Yes Minister scenario: the Prime Minister accepts your resignation. What resignation? The one you're about to write.

When someone asks you to resign they're firing you. It's like Pino saying don't post ever again or I'll ban you. 6 of one half a dozen of the other. Flab and Pat got fired. Good and proper

Exactly. So they were fired :) If the official line was that they've chosen to leave F1 and pursue careers on Broadway it would still mean that they were fired.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

When someone asks you to resign they're firing you. It's like Pino saying don't post ever again or I'll ban you. 6 of one half a dozen of the other. Flab and Pat got fired. Good and proper

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That's certainly true, but if Flavio resigned then the truther is that Flavio resigned. Publicly saying that he got fired is a surefire way of being on the wrong end of one of him "criminal proceedings" - which, incidentally, I assume he now intends to drop.

Of course but let's not have the wool pulled over our eyes and see this as anything other than two very guilty men being fired regardless of whether it's dressed up as resignation or whatever.

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Originally Posted by jas123f1

Is there some who believe that Alonso didn't know of this? I don't think that's possible – and his tactic tells that he did know. He had very early pit stop and it’s not normally if you start that long back on the greed.

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I'm sure he'd argue that Singapore isn't a normal track either and the chances of a SC period were so great that his strategy made sense.

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

I wonder what will happen with the WMSC hearing now. Will it still go ahead as planned?

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That's going to be very interesting. Since Flav and Symonds were the main culprits and now they are gone, what are the grounds to prosecute the whole Renault F1 organisation if there is no proof of other people being involved?

In my wildest dreams I cannot think of a single reason why Flavio, Symonds and Piquet Jr. thought they could get away with this. (My article: http://formula-1.suite101.com/articl...s_and_briatore)

Is there any other option for the FIA but to exclude all of them?

Evidently, they had a better than pretty good chance of getting away with it, hadn't the disgruntled Piquet spilled the beans on the whole scheme...