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[darwin dali]

F1live:

Alain Prost is first in line should the 'crash-gate' scandal result in Flavio Briatore's departure from Formula One as Renault team boss.

The German magazine Auto Motor und Sport reports that Prost, the quadruple world champion and former owner and boss of an eponymous team, has been lined up by Renault should it need another manager for the Enstone-based outfit.

David Richards was also named as a possible replacement for Briatore.

The scandal involving Nelson Piquet's claims that he crashed deliberately in Singapore last year has dominated the paddock banter at Monza this weekend.


Briatore has suggested Piquet and his father are simply furious about the 23-year-old Brazilian driver being sacked earlier this year, but the rumours about the deliberate crash had been circulating ever since the crash last September.

Williams co-owner Patrick Head told reporters on Sunday that a journalist informed him Piquet had confessed about the crash 15 minutes after the Singapore night race.

The Briton suggested the journalist, as well as the Renault team chiefs, should have informed the FIA at the time.

[McLaren]

Interesting didn't realise Patrick Head had said that.I can't stand that Briatore and wouldn't trust him an inch.Hopefully if found guilty it will be a case of him and perhaps a race engineer getting done ?.Fingers crossed it wont be the end of renault.

[Denthúl]

Interesting didn't realise Patrick Head had said that.I can't stand that Briatore and wouldn't trust him an inch.Hopefully if found guilty it will be a case of him and perhaps a race engineer getting done ?.Fingers crossed it wont be the end of renault.

Unfortunately, that engineer looks set to be Pat Symonds

[al4x]

tbh i think it will be the end of renault if theyre guilty

[Jabberwocky]

I think the worse part of the situation, and something that should not be allowed is that Flavio was team boss and manager of Piquet.

The team boss whants what is best for the team, the manager should want what is best for the driver. How could he play both roles.

talk about conflict of interest... well no I think Flavio's interest is just money.

I would rather go for David Richards/Prodrive than Prost, look what happened last time Alain run a team. At least BAR/Honda did better when Richards was involved

[Jamie]

tbh i think it will be the end of renault if theyre guilty

Agee dude. I think Prost would make a good candidate for the role!! But I have doubts that Renault will stay.

[hamilton08]

tbh i think it will be the end of renault if theyre guilty

Agee dude. I think Prost would make a good candidate for the role!! But I have doubts that Renault will stay.

I would love Prost to get the position

[Gaz]

Prodrive Renault then?

don't get me wrong i certainly don't want to see that Renault turn out tto guilty, but i wouldn't mind Flav being sacked, as long as pet is kept on

[al4x]

Prodrive Renault then?

don't get me wrong i certainly don't want to see that Renault turn out tto guilty, but i wouldn't mind Flav being sacked, as long as pet is kept on

i just posted in the other thread, i would be quite happy to see him sacked, for me, he is the worst thing about the team

[darwin dali]

I think the worse part of the situation, and something that should not be allowed is that Flavio was team boss and manager of Piquet.

The team boss whants what is best for the team, the manager should want what is best for the driver. How could he play both roles.

talk about conflict of interest... well no I think Flavio's interest is just money.

I would rather go for David Richards/Prodrive than Prost, look what happened last time Alain run a team. At least BAR/Honda did better when Richards was involved

Multiple personality disorder

And re. Prost: I think that's unfair considering the money problems he faced with the team.

[FerrariFan63]

McLaren survived a number of major cheating scandals, and are still well and truly in business. Renault's commitment to F1 is less than McLaren's, but even so, I'd expect them to stay.

Surely anyone sensible would choose Dave Richards over Alain Prost. Prost's team didn't really do that well.

[al4x]

id prefer richards, he seems a decent guy, but anyones better than flav [within reason] nah this is major cheating, far worse than macca

[darwin dali]

Flavio hits back
"Nelsinho lebte mit einem Gentleman zusammen - der Charakter ihrer Beziehung ist unbekannt. Sein Vater war über diese Beziehung zu einem 50-jährigen Mann schwer besorgt", gab Briatore zu Protokoll.
Playboy Flavio weiter: "Sie lebten zusammen und sein Vater bat mich darum einzuschreiten. Ich sorgte dafür, dass dieser Mann nicht mehr zu den Rennen kam, und ich überredete Nelsinho zum Umzug von Oxford in ein Gebäude in London, in dem ich auch lebe, damit ich ihn unter Kontrolle halten konnte."


"Nelsinho lived with a gentleman - the character of their relationship is unknown. His father was very concerned about that relationship with a 50-year old man."

"They lived together and his father asked me to intervene. I made sure that that man would not show up at races anymore and I persuaded Nelsinho to move from Oxford to a house in London where I also live so that I can keep him under control."

[Amanda]

Flavio hits back
"Nelsinho lebte mit einem Gentleman zusammen - der Charakter ihrer Beziehung ist unbekannt. Sein Vater war über diese Beziehung zu einem 50-jährigen Mann schwer besorgt", gab Briatore zu Protokoll.
Playboy Flavio weiter: "Sie lebten zusammen und sein Vater bat mich darum einzuschreiten. Ich sorgte dafür, dass dieser Mann nicht mehr zu den Rennen kam, und ich überredete Nelsinho zum Umzug von Oxford in ein Gebäude in London, in dem ich auch lebe, damit ich ihn unter Kontrolle halten konnte."


"Nelsinho lived with a gentleman - the character of their relationship is unknown. His father was very concerned about that relationship with a 50-year old man."

"They lived together and his father asked me to intervene. I made sure that that man would not show up at races anymore and I persuaded Nelsinho to move from Oxford to a house in London where I also live so that I can keep him under control."

Seriously, is that for real or am I being extremely gullible?

[JamesD89]

Flavio hits back
"Nelsinho lebte mit einem Gentleman zusammen - der Charakter ihrer Beziehung ist unbekannt. Sein Vater war über diese Beziehung zu einem 50-jährigen Mann schwer besorgt", gab Briatore zu Protokoll.
Playboy Flavio weiter: "Sie lebten zusammen und sein Vater bat mich darum einzuschreiten. Ich sorgte dafür, dass dieser Mann nicht mehr zu den Rennen kam, und ich überredete Nelsinho zum Umzug von Oxford in ein Gebäude in London, in dem ich auch lebe, damit ich ihn unter Kontrolle halten konnte."


"Nelsinho lived with a gentleman - the character of their relationship is unknown. His father was very concerned about that relationship with a 50-year old man."

"They lived together and his father asked me to intervene. I made sure that that man would not show up at races anymore and I persuaded Nelsinho to move from Oxford to a house in London where I also live so that I can keep him under control."

You know the argument is getting petty when they start calling each other gay.