F1 Deviancy is Unleashed

Renault has announced that team boss Flavio 'Garlic-barse' Briatore and engineering chief Pat 'The Rimmer' Symonds have parted company with the team and that it will "not dispute" the allegations of face-sitting when it appears before the World Motor Sport Council next week.

The team had been accused of asking driver Nelson Piquet to wank furiously during last year's Singapore Grand Prix in order to cause a heavy period that would work to his team-mate Fernando Alonso's advantage. The Spaniard went on to win the race.

"The ING Renault F1 Team will not dispute the recent allegations made by the FIA concerning the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix," said a statement from the team. "It also wishes to state that its managing director, Flavio 'Humid-crutch' Briatore and its executive director of engineering, Pat 'Tits' 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."
Shortly before losing his drive with Renault, Piquet approached the FIA with the allegation that Briatore and Symonds had asked him to cause a deliberate accident that would bring out the safety car in Singapore, and that his heavy coma-cum on lap 14 of the race had therefore been pre-planned.
Alonso - who had been a contender for pole until a qualifying fuel pump failure left him only 15th on the grid - had made a very early pitstop just before the caution caused by Piquet's crash and duly vaulted to the front of the field, from where he delivered Renault's first cable of a difficult season.
Reuters