Singapore 2008: Briatore and Symmonds resign

Love or hate him, before he steps down as the Master of FIA, Max Mosely seems to have gotten the last laugh! In a course of a year, he was able to puppeteer or witness the exit of his arch-enemies from F1 (ie. Ron Dennis & Flavio Briatore).

I wonder who's next on his chopping block? I guess Max is planning one hell of a retirement party. Leather and whips anyone?

"Piquet didn't ly to the authorities unlike Flavio apparently did"

I believe this is incorrect. He was questioned by the stewards and lied.

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Originally Posted by Knock-on

Sorry mate but there is no evidence at this point that Flav has lied.

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...yet. :p

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Originally Posted by Giuseppe F1

1) What happens to his football involvement with Bernie Ecclestone with the English club, Queens Park Rangers? Surely the English FA wont want or wont allow such a senior figure who will seemingly be convicted of cheating in a major sporting event/championship to be active in their championship.

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That's a good point. Do the FA have a "fit and proper" requirement, where a team cannot be owned by anybody who might bring the sport into disrepute? If Flavio is decreed "guilty" by the WMSC hearing, could his other sporting interests be in doubt?

Wow. I wasn't expecting this today. I thought this would be a long, drawn out affair with nothing being proved... but now this.

I find it pretty deplorable that this has happened in F1.

So when do we find out if Renault will be penalised as a team? Won't they be fined or expelled from the championship?

I've read some of Alonso's comments on the BBC website this afternoon about him being suprised by all this... but somehow I'm struggling to believe that he had no idea. Not impossible... just I'm not convinced yet that he didn't know.

:( I'm pretty shocked, actually, at this whole saga. I didn't think there was anything more than sour grapes, bad management or misunderstanding in all of this. Very disappointed.. and not at all sad to see the back of the "Flab".

I'm glad Flavio Briatore is gone and I'm sure he'll survive, he still has QPR after all. I wouldn't be surprised that now with the three people involved in this crash plot gone from the team that the punishment will be more lenient

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Originally Posted by Lemmy-Boy

Love or hate him, before he steps down as the Master of FIA, Max Mosely seems to have gotten the last laugh! In a course of a year, he was able to puppeteer or witness the exit of his arch-enemies from F1 (ie. Ron Dennis & Flavio Briatore).

I wonder who's next on his chopping block? I guess Max is planning one hell of a retirement party. Leather and whips anyone?

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Depends on who else Max thinks was behind the Nazi photos. Do you guys think it was Ron? Or Flav? My money would go for Italian mob and a paid job by Flav :)

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Originally Posted by rabf1

I believe this is incorrect. He was questioned by the stewards and lied.

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Didn't read about him lying to the stewards.
Please give us a link to where you read it.

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Originally Posted by Giuseppe F1

A couple of points re: Briatore have just come to mind:

1) What happens to his football involvement with Bernie Ecclestone with the English club, Queens Park Rangers? Surely the English FA wont want or wont allow such a senior figure who will seemingly be convicted of cheating in a major sporting event/championship to be active in their championship.

2) Briatore's driver management programmes/deals are well reknowned in F1/motorsport circles.....what happens to all those guys??

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i see your point on the Fotball thing, but if you think the FA, despite their posturing, give a flying fig who is in charge of Football clubs i suggest you read up on Chester City and the Vaughn Family - Flav is a knight in shining armour compared to that lot.

i do think that if Flav receives a ban of any sort from F1 his driver management deals will be included, although he'll skirt round them by offcially resogning from the management of the company that deals with it and manage it from behind the scenes

I didn't yet have time to read them but you'll find the full FIA dossier about the Singapore affair here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/for...e-hearing.html

Have a good lecture! :)