Briatore & Symonds quit over race fix charge

[DJBoddington]

Flavio Briatore has left his position as boss of the Renault team after they decided not to contest charges of fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
Executive director of engineering Pat Symonds has also left the team.

Renault were summoned by governing body, the FIA, after Nelson Piquet Jr claimed he had been asked to crash to help team-mate Fernando Alonso's race.
It is not known if Renault must still face the World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Monday to answer the charges

Renault had been called to answer charges that they "conspired with its driver, Nelson Piquet Jr, to cause a deliberate crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix with the aim of causing the deployment of the safety car to the advantage of its other driver, Fernando Alonso."
Piquet crashed two laps after the Spaniard had come in for a routine pit stop.

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[Chris]

I see the football league have wrote to the FIA about it, meaning he could have to leave his position at QPR.

[DJBoddington]

lol yea they asked for Advice about what they should do with him :P [as i have read]

[Jake]

Heard about this in the news, it's only right though with something as big as race fixing which could affect the championship and even injure Pique then its only right the people responsible are charged, I still don't know if Piquet would have actually crashed the car if he was told to (if that makes sense) :P

[DJBoddington]

LOL but quitting shows they did fix it...if they didnt fix it, they would've stayed :P

[Jake]

yeh it always stupid when they do stuff like that, I mean it basicly proves your guilty :P

[DJBoddington]

lmao yea :P