FIA to launch inquiry into last year's Singapore Grand Prix

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It seems that having been sacked by Renault, Nelson Piquet Jr. has made a substantial allegation into the result of this race.

Basically, the allegation is that Piquet was asked to deliberately crash on the lap after Alonso's pit stop. This caused a safety car to come out, which benefitted Alonso massively as he was the only driver to have refuelled. Alonso went on to win the race.

If Renault are found guilty (which I doubt), there is no limit to the penalty that the FIA can impose.

 

[itszamora]

Surely unless it was pre-determined before the race itself the only way they could tell him to crash would be over the radio, which the FIA have access to?

 

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Surely unless it was pre-determined before the race itself the only way they could tell him to crash would be over the radio, which the FIA have access to?

My thoughts exactly... and how can the FIA ever prove that a conversation took place in a motorhome? Unless Piquet can back up his arguement with email or written evidence from team management, I cannot see how the allegations will ever stick.

 

[itszamora]

My thoughts exactly... and how can the FIA ever prove that a conversation took place in a motorhome? Unless Piquet can back up his arguement with email or written evidence from team management, I cannot see how the allegations will ever stick.

Telemetry from the car maybe? I'm guessing there's a difference between how a driver crashes when he's deliberately trying to bring out a safety car and when he's just lost it going into a corner.

 

[Skint Gull]

I remember thinking at the time that was a touch convenient but there's no way this can stick

 

[Icy Gull]

I think Piquet may wake up with a horse's head in his bed shortly

 

[Hannibal smith]

Well that’s the end of Piquet’s career in F1 if it wasn’t already. No other team will touch him if he runs off to the FIA with the internal workings of the team as they are all as bent as each other. Strange how noise about Piquet being released from Renault went around that time last year as well.

The bottom line is there will be much noise but not much punishment. It’s highly likely Renault are guilty but they will have difficulty proving it and Bernie won’t want another manufacturer jumping ship after BMW and Honda. Throw in Flavio Briatorie being Bernie’s mate and its odds on ‘Not guilty’

All Piquet has done is make himself unemployable.

 

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From the times:

The investigation is expected to involve detailed analysis of all the technical data on Renault’s participation in the race, including telemetry from the cars and voice recordings of pitwall communications with the drivers. The governing body is also likely to send inspectors to Renault’s Formula One headquarters at Enstone, near Oxford, and to the team’s factory in France to examine computers and any other data that could be relevant

From Bernie Ecclestone:

“This is not the sort of thing we need at the moment,”

“I think it will p*** off Renault for a start. Them leaving the sport is a danger, obviously. I mean, I hope that it isn’t like that, but it’s the sort of thing that might happen.”

“What I know, I can’t say, to be honest with you. All I know is that Flavio is insisting that he knows nothing about it. I think the FIA are looking into everything. They are trying to find out the reality. I suppose they would be upset if they found out that what people are assuming is true, is in fact true, I suppose.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article6816343.ece

 

[beorhthelm]

i really dont see this happend. dont see how you could deliberatly and safely (he aint going to just be a test dummy into a wall) crash a F1 car in a manner that would require a safety car.

 

[Easy 10]

i really dont see this happend. dont see how you could deliberatly and safely (he aint going to just be a test dummy into a wall) crash a F1 car in a manner that would require a safety car.

Exactly.
Not sure what Piquets agenda is with all this, but I find it very difficult to believe that someone would (a) order him to ram his car into the pit wall at 200mph or (b) that he would take his life into his hands and actually DO it !

All very murky, as F1 invariably is.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Perhaps there is a pre-ordained code for "crash deliberately into a wall at 200mph please" which the cunners at Renault had worked out already...I recommend that the F1A listen back to the comms for something like "The geese are flying backwards" or "Fills my heart with a monstrous langour" or somesuch.

Should be nimps to prove.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Perhaps there is a pre-ordained code for "crash deliberately into a wall at 200mph please" which the cunners at Renault had worked out already...I recommend that the F1A listen back to the comms for something like "The geese are flying backwards" or "Fills my heart with a monstrous langour" or somesuch.

Should be nimps to prove.

Listen out for the phrase 'The time has come. Execute Order 66'

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Listen out for the phrase 'The time has come. Execute Order 66'

"Nelson, this is control, listen...do not CRASH NOW repeat do not CRASH NOW" that is all" *click*

 

[Icy Gull]

"Drive your normal race" was the very simple message