http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8266090.stm
Appropriately harsh sentence?
Personally think it seems a bit light after what happened to Mclaren for spy-gate!
Cheers,
James
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I'm personally disgusted with the whole affair!
I was living in my naive bubble thinking that the teams would 'stretch' the rules where they could 'get away with it' but in my
mind, that has an implied spirit to it!
This is just blatant, ignorant and disgraceful!
It seems the main perpetrators have received their comeuppance and are effectively excluded from FIA sport!
Cheating with special parts is one thing, crashing is simply not on, bits of debris flying around results in someone getting hurt.
I bet Renualt knew nothing about this so have been tarnished.
There is simply to much money in the sport.
Bits of carbon on a race track after an avoidable incident combined with cars going at reduced pace following the safety car.
It's a recipe for disaster and whoever sanctions such a potentially disastrous chain of events deserves time in the slammer.
It's criminal proceedings which should be considered right now and the FIA isn't a high enough court IMHO.
Hangings too good for them!
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Originally posted by scootz
Hangings too good for them!
briantori got banned for life! 
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They have been dealt with heavily by governing body the FIA, with Briatore banned for life from attending race tracks and Symonds excluded from any participation in F1 for five years. Although whether such bans are enforceable under law is another matter.
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Originally posted by zilspeed
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Originally posted by scootz
Hangings too good for them!
I know you're joking, but I would definitely have them in a criminal court.
http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5564741,00.html
Far too lenient. Stupidly dangerous way to cheat. I guess they were just worried that Renault would pull their team and engines if the punishment was too severe. Personally I think Alonso must have either been in the know or told not to ask questions about his unfeasably short first stint....Just feel sorry for Massa - he would have been World Champ last year if it wasn't for this...
Just proves what a farce F1 has become, no more than expensive banger racing
Am I the only cynical one here thinking it's Bernie and Max getting rid of the head of FOTA that caused so many issues and trying to get a
certain renault driver into a red car?
Either way, Formula Farce lost its interest year ago for me
[Edited on 21/9/09 by Alfa145]
[Edited on 21/9/09 by Alfa145]
Pat Symonds said when interviewed by the FIA that it was Piquet jnr's idea ---- Pat Symonds was offered immunity but didn't take --- Pat
Symonds of all those involved in the case is the most likely to be telling something resembling the truth.
What this is really all about is Max wanted Flav's head on a splke to mount beside Ron's so much he was willing to let the Piquet jnr go
unpunished.
Max wanted to fix Flav for good before he left office (?) he dosen't care about punishing Renault Piquet or anybody else.
Pat Symonds was in the target zone so got hit because he didn't point the finger at Flav. Pat like anybody anybody with the job title engineer
is never normally important enough to come up on the Mosley radar
Although a lot of people suspected at the time the whole thing would never have come to light if Piquet snr hadn't had a major slanging match
with Piquet jnr about his non-macho life style and had Piquet jnr been a better F1 driver or grown up enough to realise we wasn't good enough to
make it.
Incidentall Flavio's son is Piquet jnr agent with 15 years left to run on the contract :-) rotf
So the Piquets get off scot free although nobody will trust jnr enough to employ him even as a janitor and a big question mark will always hang over
Alonso knowledge or otherwise of the fix.
Flavio will have to make do with his football team and I suspect Pat will very quickly find employment.
[Edited on 21/9/09 by britishtrident]
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Originally posted by Alfa145
Am I the only cynical one here thinking it's Bernie and Max getting rid of the head of FOTA that caused so many issues and trying to get a certain renault driver into a red car?
Either way, Formula Farce lost its interest year ago for me
[Edited on 21/9/09 by Alfa145]
[Edited on 21/9/09 by Alfa145]
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Originally posted by oldtimer
Far too lenient. Stupidly dangerous way to cheat. I guess they were just worried that Renault would pull their team and engines if the punishment was too severe. Personally I think Alonso must have either been in the know or told not to ask questions about his unfeasably short first stint....Just feel sorry for Massa - he would have been World Champ last year if it wasn't for this...
I love Maxiboys words,'...as Renault have demonstrated that they had absolutely no moral authority for what took place...'.
And Max is such a good judge of moral authority. Not a champion greyhound in the moral stakes, more of a trussed up whippet.
well i am outraged 
and I don't evne follow or understand F1! especially when compared to Mclaren.
what if piquet had died? what if someone else had died too? attempted murder? lucky nothing bad happened but it could so easily have had a
different outcome.
'tis incredible that anyone would even contemplate something like that.
it's not circket for sure.
I doubt anyine will ever want piquet to drive for them, dangerous snitch.
Think it's easy playing one night stands? Try playing in a rocking band. It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.
Doesn't have much to do with this. directly, but this is what I thought of when I heard this news.
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Originally posted by Alfa145
and trying to get a certain renault driver into a red car?
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Originally posted by oldtimer
Just feel sorry for Massa - he would have been World Champ last year if it wasn't for this...