Singapore 2008: Briatore and Symmonds resign

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Originally Posted by Koz

It's probably some NP fans that are pissy about him being dropped.

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Good joke! I didn't know that the FIA were NP Jr fans!

You aren't an Alonso fan by chance, aren't you?! :D

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Originally Posted by Tazio

Just because it is so utterly untrue that Sicilians are mostly mobsters
doesn't mean Flavio's not really a cold blooded Luigi from Palermo
If Flavio goes down NP will soon be swimming with the fishes :uhoh:
So don't be surprised if he has a brake failure on a remote cliff road,
or a sudden explosion and horrible fiery death
in his personal ride soon :laugh: :burnout:

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ah what a lovely thought :eek:

something tells me this is gonna get messy, but I just hope its not true, if it is, Flavio should be banned from F1 for life. Not even he could do something as cynical as that surely?, something so morally wrong. if they do get punished, that'll be the end of Renault in F1 for sure.

like someone said on this forum recently: why would you? how would you?

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Originally Posted by henners88

It will be interesting to learn how this message to crash was delivered to Nelson during the race as they could not have predicted the events before hand.

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There were no events to predict because they were creating the event.

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Originally Posted by henners88

It will be interesting to learn how this message to crash was delivered to Nelson during the race as they could not have predicted the events before hand. It would be a huge gamble to rely on the radio knowing it is being monitored, as this would have potential to be an enormous scandal. I've narrowed it down to a few other reasonable methods:

1. Sign language from the lollipop man or Pat Symonds.
2. A note passed to Nelson during a pit stop, or text written on the rag that wiped his visor.
3. A paper aeroplane thrown from the pit wall and gathered by Nelson as he passed the start finish line.
4. Telepathy between Flav and Nelson fine tuned in the boardroom for instances like this.

All plausable methods but my question would be how it is proved by the FIA ... Can't wait :)

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Excellent LOL!

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Originally Posted by henners88

Not entirely as they were unaware before the race exactly when Rosberg, Hamilton, Glock etc were making their first stops. Will be interesting none the less.

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They made sure Alonso was very very light and thus the first to pit so they eliminated most of the unknowns with that.

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Originally Posted by Koz

It's probably some NP fans that are pissy

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WHAT????!!!! All three of them? :confused: ;)

Easy enough for Renault to decide a code before the race - even just saying Alonso has pitted could be enough. Or tell Piquet beforehand to crash on lap whatever. As far as I can tell this can't be proved!

Besides, Piquet saying "he told me to crash" isn't going to hold much water. He could just say no after all.

Lets see...

Flavour fires a useless NP Jnr. NP Jnr then says he was ordered to crash to during a race in 2008 to assist Alonso win the GP. Hmmmm.....sour grapes come to mind.

I cant believe anyone would read anthing into the accusation.

How many people would need to be in on this though?

Piquet obviously
Flavio
Whoever sent him an apparently innocent radio message that was his que to find the wall ?
Alonso perhaps ?


In any case its not going to be many people involved and I doubt renault are stupid enough to leave any sort of paper trail.

How are they ever supposed to prove that such incident occurred? :rolleyes: That was almost a year ago. F1 Singapore is about to start the end of September and then they're suddenly making a big deal of this.

And Piquet is not exactly a very reliable accuser. One could easily think that this is just but a case of sour graping.