Scandal involving Briatore and Renault

Re: Scandal envolving Briatore and Renault#151197

By 7UpJordan - 10 Sep 09, 21:12

- 10 Sep 09, 21:12#151197

I can't believe this, I thought Pat Symonds would be one of the last people in the team who would even remotely consider pulling off this stunt, and now it has been revealed he was one of the architects!

Hardly suprising Flavio was behind it though...

This does not bode well for Renault, and now having watched Piquet's crash on Youtube again it really does look like a suspicious crash.

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Re: Scandal envolving Briatore and Renault#151199

By Jensonb - 10 Sep 09, 21:15

- 10 Sep 09, 21:15#151199

I have a lot of trouble believing Piquet's story.

But then I had a lot of trouble believing the crash was deliberate at all, and Renault now seem to admit it was. And now they're all carrying on like the cornered schoolboy who the teacher saw vandalising the wall.

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Re: Scandal envolving Briatore and Renault#151210

By racechick - 10 Sep 09, 21:26

- 10 Sep 09, 21:26#151210

Crispin wrote:
racechick wrote:I can't believe Pat was involved. i used to know him ages ago. If Piquet was being asked to do that sort of s*** no wonder he didnt drive too well!! Scumbags! (If its true...and that sounds very plausable)

EDIT And I can believe Alonso wasnt aware!He seems to cause poo in all the teams he drives for. WATCH OUT FERRARI !!

Jealous again? or just scared of his move to ferrari...

Jealous of what? Scared of him going to Ferrari? Nope. Watching lewis blow him away in a ferrari will be almost as good as seeing him wet his knickers when Lewis the rookie whuped him.

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Re: Scandal envolving Briatore and Renault#151214

By Denthúl - 10 Sep 09, 21:33

- 10 Sep 09, 21:33#151214

7UpJordan wrote:I can't believe this, I thought Pat Symonds would be one of the last people in the team who would even remotely consider pulling off this stunt, and now it has been revealed he was one of the architects!

If you read all of the articles on this, it's all 'sources claim'. Well, um, if these sources were reputable, surely we'd know about it? A lot of the more respectable journalists are skeptical about the quotes from Briatore and Symonds at the moment, so there's some hope that it isn't true and all created by the Piquets.

Re: Scandal envolving Briatore and Renault#151219

By Jensonb - 10 Sep 09, 21:38

- 10 Sep 09, 21:38#151219

Denthúl wrote:
7UpJordan wrote:I can't believe this, I thought Pat Symonds would be one of the last people in the team who would even remotely consider pulling off this stunt, and now it has been revealed he was one of the architects!
If you read all of the articles on this, it's all 'sources claim'. Well, um, if these sources were reputable, surely we'd know about it? A lot of the more respectable journalists are skeptical about the quotes from Briatore and Symonds at the moment, so there's some hope that it isn't true and all created by the Piquets.

Those two are just shady enough to have made the whole thing up, so let's just hope they in fact did.

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Re: Scandal envolving Briatore and Renault#151250

By racechick - 10 Sep 09, 23:39

- 10 Sep 09, 23:39#151250

Briatore's pretty shady!

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Re: Scandal envolving Briatore and Renault#151253

By Jensonb - 10 Sep 09, 23:49

- 10 Sep 09, 23:49#151253

racechick wrote:Briatore's pretty shady!

Yeah, but he's also a lot smarter than the Piquets.

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Re: Scandal envolving Briatore and Renault#151268

By scotty - 11 Sep 09, 01:01

- 11 Sep 09, 01:01#151268

racechick wrote:Briatore's pretty shady!

Eh?!

Have you ever met a shady person who'd dress like this?

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Re: Scandal envolving Briatore and Renault#151278

By myownalias - 11 Sep 09, 01:26

- 11 Sep 09, 01:26#151278

I can definitely believe that Briatore would pull such a stunt; as for Symonds he could have been pressured into it by Briatore! I'm interested to see if the telemetry does indeed show that Piquet Jr did stay on the gas until his final destination. That'd be pretty damning evidence against the Renault team...

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