Comments on: No punishment for Briatore or Symonds?

By: scarlet pimpernel

scarlet pimpernel — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:41:55 +0000

Everyone on this forum that does NOT think there have been laws broken IS TAKING A STUPID Pill !!!! Last time I saw, the Renault F1 team is incorporated in a country (in France or in the UK), the Renault Automobile company is incorporated in a country (in France or in the UK), Briatore’s FFBB driver management company is incorporated in a country (in France, Monaco, or in the UK), and the company that manages and delivers the Singapore Grand Prix race is protected against loss in value and misrepresentation by laws in Singapore…!!! So please STOP saying out loud “the FiA have no jurisdiction on this or on that”…What you have to ask yourself is when will these countries in-which these racing and management organizations are based are NOT throwing people in JAIL right now ???!!!

Just watch: NO BODY WILL GO TO JAIL !!! And we all know that there should be about 3 or 4 people who SHOUD be in jail right now ! And that little jerk Nelson Piquet Jr. should not be given any immunity since he always had the power to say “NO” to any of this…the steering wheel was in his hands. Thank God nobody got hurt in the race because of this. Just watch: NO BODY WILL GO TO JAIL !!!

By: Tom K

Tom K — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:39:07 +0000

Legally, it was fraud, at least it would have been in the U.S. But Singapore does not have a dog in this race, and will not to prosecute a case against three foreigners who caused no harm to Singaporeans.

Briatore and Symonds have disgraced themselves and the sport; Piquet has disgraced only himself. All three deserved to be banned from F1, Flavio for life, the other two for a period of years. Whether Flavio’s superiors condoned such appalling behavior is impossible to prove; nonetheless Renault should be fined for failure to set proper standards.

By: dsob

dsob — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:25:45 +0000

I’ll echo Wesley.

Well said !

By: Bigbadderboom

Bigbadderboom — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:24:39 +0000

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-1214668/FORMULA-ONE-Alain-Prost-man-repair-Renaults-shattered-image-Ex-world-champion-keen-bring-needed-morality-Formula-One.html

Prost by the look of it

By: dsob

dsob — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:23:16 +0000

I see I should have read this thread yesterday.

Well said, Big. I have been following F1 since Silverstone 1956, the year I was 6 yrs old. And I too am sick to death of slick, homogenized, pasteurized, vacuum-packed politically correct drivers who won’t say “Sheet” if their mouth was full of it.

I could use a few less pretty boys and a few more men, and have all the scandals be about the drinking and womanizing some driver did, like in the days of Fangio. Sure would be better than this cr@p we are being served just now.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:20:21 +0000

so true, so true..sad but so true

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:17:08 +0000

I said early on that flavio didnt fall on sword because it is not in his nature to do the right thing, he only did what was right for flavio and the rest can all eat crap.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:40:17 +0000

Well said!

By: Bartholomew

Bartholomew — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:27:29 +0000

The maximum authorities in F1 should spend more time creating exciting racing conditions in beautiful historic tracks, instead of finger-pointing and chasing after people for doing something wrong.
F1 authorities are responsible for creating the conditions of the Singapore affair, for their incompetence in allowing boring procesional racing in Tilke tracks. No wonder people like Flav and Symonds start thinking about something to do.
Let´s start forgetting about all this Renault affair. At least the Singapore race was not the usual procession

By: PJA

PJA — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:45:07 +0000

The FIA may not have any power to punish them now they have left Renault but they will surely make it so they can’t come back into F1 anytime soon if they are found guilty.