I do agree that granting immunity to Nelsinho and Symonds is wrong as well, but what the FIA needs to establish, beyond reasonable doubt, is whether the intentional crash is true (which it seems) and who masterminded it.

‘It also wishes to state that its managing director, Flavio Briatore and its executive director of engineering, Pat Symonds, have left the team.

‘Before attending the hearing before the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris on 21 September 2009, the team will not make any further comment.’

I just wonder sometimes whether Nelsinho is quite as bereft of talent as he has been painted. But in the current circumstances it’s pretty unlikely now that we will ever have a chance to find out if he really is, because his career has probably finally hit the buffers, whatever the outcome of this is.

Flav has a way of putting down anyone whose face doesn’t fit in the team for one reason or other, generally because they refuse to do his bidding to the letter. I seem to remember that he very nearly managed to blight the career of the current leader of the drivers championship when the latter refused to take Flav on as manager during his ill-starred stint at Renault.

FIA and F1 is so inconsistent in regulating and governing that Dennis had to take fall when his favorite son, was not man enough to confess truth to the stewards in Australia.

So when Dennis erred Coughlan had to take fall, when Lewis erred , Dennis and Dave Ryan had to take a fall. This simply proved how inadequate and inconsistent the system is and is only good to help all parties settle “Personal Scores”

The way Ferrari and McLaren have patched up in recent times after all that venom they spewed in Spygate, I get a feeling both the managements wanted to eliminate Coughlan and Stepney and Joined hands to implicate them and eliminate them from Motor sport.