Symonds says Singapore crash was Piquet's idea

Nelson Piquet Jr.

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sideskraper

There will be no winners from all of this. Although you can bet that it was Flav and Pat calling the shots rather than Nelson.

September 10, 2009 12:52 pm

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mn07

Its means renault will quit F1 from Shame

September 10, 2009 1:09 pm

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Jamaicandude

Oh crap... I was hoping that Nelsinho was just butt hurt and spreading rumors, but this does not look good for Renault at all.

September 10, 2009 1:14 pm

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Vlad

What goes around come around.... sooner than later, thankfully! Just goes to show that no top F1 team plays fair, they all are bloody crooks!

September 10, 2009 2:20 pm

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chris25

Why not blame him since he is fired. Renault is just pain in the ass & Nelsinho didn't do anything, I still doubt that Renault is playing some game over here or cheating.

September 10, 2009 2:23 pm

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tsiebrand

Of course Mr.Symonds!!! Every race driver, looking forward to a new contract, crashes the wall. We?ve seen that dozends of times. Now Heikki Kovalainen knows what he has to do to get a 2010 contract with McLaren ;)

September 10, 2009 2:37 pm

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Dragos_DreS

this is just getting better and better... what a load of bull!

September 10, 2009 6:28 pm

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catchmyshadow

but Symonds insists it was Piquet who suggested the crash be staged during the "conversation". shut up traitor!

September 10, 2009 8:03 pm

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BTB505

... a driver suggests smashing up a multimillion dollar race car, with the potential of hurting himself and bringing the race team into disrepute and the team agrees ... bullsh*t!!!!! They are all equally at fault, the team and the driver, just admit it and move on (out of F1)!!!

September 10, 2009 10:25 pm

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What about the other dozen times he crashed? Did he do it on porpuse all those times?

September 10, 2009 11:29 pm

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ifudge

It doesn't look good for Renault or F1 in general. A fine alone as a penalty would not be sufficient, but banning or disqualification would be devastating for the sport and a good cause for Renault to pull out entirely, which I'm sure nobody wants to see.

September 11, 2009 12:22 am

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astroturf777

so the meeting never happened but did happen, they never discussed crashing but did, it was not piquet's idea but it was... i assumed they'd be better liars than this... maybe flav and pat should have discussed their answers before talking to anyone...

September 11, 2009 2:07 am

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mint

well said

September 11, 2009 3:14 am

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thamzn

Renault gets docked their points or gets disqualified from the 2008 Singapore race. What happens to the rest of the players on the list, including the two championship contenders?

September 11, 2009 8:54 am

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September 10, 2009 7:45 am

Filed Under: Formula 1

Tags: Pat Symonds , Nelson Piquet , Fernando Alonso , Flavio Briatore , FIA , World Motor Sport Council , Singapore grand prix , investigation , probe , crash-gate