Comments on: Nelson Piquet Jnr and Fernando Alonso in Renault conspiracy claim (Video)

By: kevin mcgrath

kevin mcgrath — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:28:30 +0000

well well once again alonso caught up in a cheating scandal but isn’t it funny this time he is not the one blowing the whistle like he did at mclaren but the one on the reciving end i belive nelson and belive alonso knew all about it he is one big spoilt spaniard and when he carn’t get what he want throws his toy’s out of his cockpit hope this time he is penalized and kicked out for a few races if not the whole season lets just say it’s carma what comes around goe’s around this guy needs to retire so we dont have to put up with his crap no more………………….

By: Thandi

Thandi — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:19:03 +0000

I think Briatore would absoulutely do something like this
Piquet could never lie about something this big. There is definitely something here

By: dj

dj — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:25:24 +0000

just a small note:for that spin out to happen the left side cvj or drive shaft would have to fail…looks like it’s intac ,from the video above .

By: Moo Point: Like a cow's opinion, it's Moo!!

Moo Point: Like a cow's opinion, it's Moo!! — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:05:41 +0000

How about “Singagate” or “Fixagate”, actually that last one sounds more like the name of a handy-man company!!

By: Moo Point: Like a cow's opinion, it's Moo!!

Moo Point: Like a cow's opinion, it's Moo!! — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:41:48 +0000

Why would they discount the entire race result? Surely they’d just disqualify Alonso and give Rosberg the win..!!

By: The Limit

The Limit — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:26:48 +0000

You know what, I am not surprised that this story has broke and, if the Piquet family are responsible, I am not surprised either.
I can remember how Nelson Piquet Snr bahaved back in the 1980′s, and his bahaviour at times was disgusting. Don’t get me wrong, I was never a Nigel Mansell fan, but the way Nelson was at times was way beyond competitive. Everybody forgets the terrible spat between these two men in the mid 1980′s, a fractured partnership soon overshadowed by the Senna/Prost feud. But it was everybit as volatile and still persists to this day!
Back to the point in hand. In a recent interview in F1 Magazine, Piquet Jnr was asked directly if his Singapore shunt was done to help Fernando Alonso win.
His response was swift, and decisive, along the lines that he ‘would not risk killing himself’ for Fernando.
At the time, reading this man’s interview, the amount of poison in his words reminded me of his father. As they say, the apple never falls far from the tree.
If these accusations are true, they are the final nail in the coffin of Piquet’s short and disastrous F1 career. If they are true, then he is as guilty as those who ‘ordered’ him to carry them out.
This is the same situation as Lewis Hamilton was in at the beginning of the season. He was told to lie by his team to throw the result of the Melbourne Gp, and was every bit as guilty as McLaren in the process.
Hamilton’s saving grace, albeit after the scandal had been revealed, was that he admitted his guilt. That I respect, from anybody, as its the most difficult thing to do and thats to admit that you were wrong.
The fact that this story comes from a Brazilian source stinks! If this story has weight, why has it taken one year to become public knowledge. Non of these F1 teams are good at keeping secrets.
Ferrari had a guy walk out carrying the design papers to their 2007 car, and McLaren had a guy so stupid as to take them to a Sussex printers to have them photocopied. Does this sound like an enviroment derived on keeping secrets?
No, if this were true, someone would have ‘leaked’ this by now. The F1 paddock is the Albert Square of the motorsport industry, its impossible to avoid scandal and to keep secrets. This is just the last throw of the dice by a family affronted by the treatment of their son, by a man well known for making enemies as fast as he changes dollybirds.

By: djdaveyp

djdaveyp — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:58:58 +0000

An “incident”

By: Alex-Ctba

Alex-Ctba — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:32:14 +0000

Spingate sounds cool but I prefer “briatore-gate”

By: djdaveyp

djdaveyp — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:25:38 +0000

So now it needs “-gate” name:
I’m putting up the following suggestions:

-Spingate
-Skankgate (play on the spankgate lol)
-Crashgate
-Champgate

I sure everybody else can do better than that, but let the name that sticks and gets used by everybody come off the best f1 site on the web!

Please, your ideas……

By: Dougal

Dougal — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:32:44 +0000

The FIA would decide the penalty for Renault by looking at what fines they gave to other teams for equivalent offences, then deducting $100m.