Comments on: Renault to face disrepute charge this month

By: Rich C

Rich C — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:50:07 +0000

I find the total lack of hard info about this ‘new evidence’ interesting. Nobody can keep *anything secret these days. Everyone wants to be famous for 5 min as the guy who exposed something dastardly.
And yet theres *nothing but endless speculation.
This leads me to think there really *is nothing and its all a fantasy, probably launched by something Piquet said to somebody’s friend of a friend of a third cousin whilst drinking.

By: James Allen

James Allen — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:04:35 +0000

The moderator is instructed to cut out all offensive language, personal attacks and libellous statements. If you read the Rules of the Blog, it’s very clear. You are free to post your thoughts and they are most welcome, but it has to be on those terms.

By: herh

herh — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:10:53 +0000

Alright, James, you modified my message. It’s your blog, of course, but I don’t think there was a need to modify the message. Certainly I wasn’t trying to be offensive. Just stating that someone has to be lying. It is either Fernando Alonso, or representatives of the so-called media.

The statements coming from Fernando Alonso and the statements coming from commentators in the media, like you, do not match. So I figure someone is not being honest with us.

By: Martin Collyer

Martin Collyer — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:40:31 +0000

Paul, my recollection of this was that traction and or launch control software WAS on the car but had been disabled. I recall that some reports said that the disabling was done simply by removing it as a menu option, it was still there if you knew the right button or sequence of buttons to press.

FIA were unable to prove that the software had been used so Benetton were found innocent.

By: James Allen

James Allen — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:18:19 +0000

We have to wait to find out the details of who did what before we draw any conclusions on this.

By: Antoine

Antoine — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:48:34 +0000

Because He won the race…

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:54:46 +0000

Cannot believe this whole thing could not wait until the end of the season. What a bunch of idiots.

By: Martin Collyer

Martin Collyer — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:34:17 +0000

VW or maybe Audi were said to believe (sorry but I can’t remember where I read this) that spending on F1 made as much sense as flushing money down the toilet.

This would have been in the last year or two but the cost of competing is coming down massively!!!

By: Martin Collyer

Martin Collyer — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:23:53 +0000

“…some obscure underling will be found to have acted alone”.

Disgraceful don’t you think, Andy?

“…remember they’re (Renault) allowed the benefit of the doubt at this stage

Yes we have to stress that fundamental principle of justice. However, we would be naive to think that all this investigating was going on if there was nothing to investigate.

Re Alonso and his part in this, if any? He is the undisputed number one in the team, it seems to me highly likely that he would know NPJ’s strategy in all races.

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:22:48 +0000

Well, we all know that Fernando was had provided sufficient information to FIA in Stepneygate. His image,deservingly, did take quite a battering due to that. But nobody could ignore that talent, art and craft of the man. If Piquet Jr. or the people around him are the source of information for crash gate, I just wonder how does it help Nelsinho for future. His reputation as a driver is well known. Even if a team would have contemplated of taking him a driver number 2; now they would not een take him as a test driver unless Piquet Sr. ends up holding shres with a team. In any case, Nelsinho Angelo Piquet’s career seems to be over IMO. Would like to know what James thinks about it.