Nelson Piquet Crash – Singapore Grand Prix 2008
Did Renault ask Nelson to Crash?

Published: 254 days ago

Category: 2008, Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault, Singapore Grand Prix

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Or Did he Crash to Keep His Place at Renault?

This is the incident that has become controversial after the departure of Nelson Piquet from Renault in the Summer of 2009.

It is said that after the acrimonious split between Renault and Piquet after the Hungarian Grand Prix that Piquet blew the whistle and said that Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds asked him specifically to crash on lap 17 of the 2008 Singaporean Grand Prix in order to give Alonso the best chance of winning the race.

Briatore and Symonds refute these claims, though they admit that the subject was discussed and the matter was raised by Piquet himself before the race.

The Renault team are up before the FIA to state their case on 21st September and if found guilty we can only imagine that the penalty will be enormous given that it is a more serious issue than the McLaren-Ferrari spy scandal of 2007.