Singapore 2008: Briatore and Symmonds resign

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Well...Briatore has said (link) "I was just trying to save the team. It's my duty. That's the reason I've finished."

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http://api.ning.com/files/2D12wzLl5-...n_facepalm.jpg

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Originally Posted by Robinho

Perhaps Saint would like to take some delve into some of Flavs dealings prior to the Bennetton (pre F1) days, or perhaps could divulge some information into the shade that exists surrounding the bomb outside his house in the 90's that was never explained before nailing his colours to Flavs flag (pole).

yes he's acheived plenty, he's been very successful inside and outside F1, but contgroversy has always surrounded him - Bennetton Traction control? Tampered fuel rigs? McLaren data in the system? he's always been happy to insult other drivers and cry foul against his team when it suits (see Double Diffusers and Jenson Button from this year alone)

he is not some paragon of virtue that you make out, he is a highly successful and highly ruthless man who has taken one chance too many. sure he's been a colourful character, but the entertainment he's brought has steadily been overtaken by the sleaze and as such he has to go.

what better way to admit guilt than to quit (whilst pushed) and not contest the charges.

and for the record there has been plenty of outpourings regarding Hamilton, Schumacher, McLaren, Ferrari and pretty much every controversy here, this is not new, unlike yourself. but the act of reckless endagerment as a method of cheating, and lieing about it is about as bad as it comes and Piquet is as guilty as anyone, knowing the history of his father, and of Jnrs time in the lower formulae in S America i'm not the least bit surprised by his part in this.

that he was willing to partake in the scheme is bad enough, to carry it out, lie about it and then only come clean as a grudge/bargaining tool is just scummy behaviour - if the piquets are never seen in F1 either i will not shed a tear

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Thank you!

By the way, you don't have a link to the stuff in your first paragraph, do you? Grateful if you could send that to me by PM. Ta!!

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Originally Posted by henners88

Piquet may well have been naive but no less than Lewy boy playing politics on behalf of his team in Australia.. Look at the lynching he got on here, and I remember people saying "he should have refused to lie and been a man and stop trying to pass the buck bla bla"... Why then is this any different??

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We all had our say and condemned him. I felt he should have been banned actually, but that would have upset that horrible dwarf Greedy Bernie. But!! that is off topic - this is about the the race fixing perpetrated by Sleazy Flav, Pat Symonds and that idiot Jr.

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Originally Posted by harsha

I don't know much about Piquet Jr's antics in the South American Racing Scene,so is there anything that i should know that makes me lose my symphathy for him :?:

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its worth having a search for some details on a few antics regarding (i think) Brazilian or S American F3 championships, regarding testing, extra parts and his competitors. i can't remeber all the details but i read enough to think he probably would have struggled to even make GP2 without some of the underhand goings on back there, let alone the budget his team was running on compared to the others.

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

Thank you!

By the way, you don't have a link to the stuff in your first paragraph, do you? Grateful if you could send that to me by PM. Ta!!

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Flav has lead a more colourful life than a Bennetton advert. There has always been suggestions of dodgy dealings under the surface but for the sake of a Horses head, I won't go into it. Suffice to say his boss decided to be retired by a slight problem with car combustion which preceeded his rise to become involved with Benetton before running NA and finally the race team.

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

Thank you!

By the way, you don't have a link to the stuff in your first paragraph, do you? Grateful if you could send that to me by PM. Ta!!

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i haven't got anything that i can send you right now, i've read a few things about his "connections" and there is supposedly links to these previous dealings and the bombing. its easy to fill in the blanks and probably end up with a similar idea, although there is obviously not a lot of documented info.

needless to say there was never a result to the investigations into the bombing. there is enough mention of crimes and "families" in teh paragraph below to raise questions at least!

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He was born in 1950 in Verzuolo, in the Italian Piedmont, and earned a living as a ski instructor and restaurant manager before going to work as an assistant to the businessman Attilio Dutto, the owner of the Paramatti Vernici paint manufacturing company. The company's previous owner had been Michele Sindona, a Sicily-born Mafia banker who laundered heroin proceeds for the Gambino family and was poisoned in prison. In 1979 Dutto was killed in a car-bomb attack, the identity and motives of his assassin still unknown.

When the firm collapsed Briatore was charged with fraudulent bankruptcy and given a prison sentence of four and a half years. He moved to the Virgin Islands, but benefited from a legal amnesty and was able to return to Italy and settle in Milan. There he met Luciano Benetton, the head of the clothing firm, who offered him a job arranging franchises in the US

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...lt-formula-one

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Briatore's friendship with Ecclestone survived an early disturbance when, soon after he had bought a house in Cadogan Square from the Formula One ringmaster, a bomb blew off the front door

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Sorry Rob, forgot about the London Bomb. :)

Bored of this now.....next scandal please

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78681

Renault blame Flav

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

Bored of this now.....next scandal please

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how about;

Caster Semenya to become new F1 "woman Driver", Piquet Jnr says

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not man enough for him

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Button does not offer to adjust her straps

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i'm afraid i could lose my hand, i've heard she's got teeth down there!

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Vettel overheard saying

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man, she could snap me like a twig

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