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Renault gets two-year suspended F1 ban

Renault have been given a two-year suspended ban from Formula 1 for their role in fixing last year’s Singapore Grand Prix.

The team were called before governing body the FIA to answer charges they had asked driver Nelson Piquet Jr to crash to help team-mate Fernando Alonso win.

Former team boss Flavio Briatore has been banned from FIA sanctioned events for an unlimited period.

Ex-engineering director Pat Symonds has also been excluded for five years.

Briatore and Symonds parted company with Renault last week at the same time as the French car giant said they would not contest the charges.

The FIA agreed not to pursue action against Piquet for his role in uncovering the details of the scandal.

In addition to banning Renault, the WMSC handed out hefty individual penalties to Briatore and Symonds. Neither will be allowed any involvement in FIA-sanctioned motorsport, Briatore indefinitely and Symonds for the next five years.

Piquet, who was dropped by Renault in July, was granted immunity from sanction for volunteering his evidence in the investigation.

“We are very sad to find ourselves in front of the Word Motor Sport Council today,” said Renault team president Bernard Rey after the Paris hearing. “By way of background, as a result of our own enquiries, we informed the FIA last week that we would not defend the charges and we accepted our responsibilities in relation to the incident in Singapore and we immediately took appropriate action inside the team.

The governing body said the severity of Briatore’s penalty was the result of the both nature of the scandal and “his actions in continuing to deny his participation in the breach despite all the evidence”.

The FIA said Renault’s former driver Nelson Piquet Jr, who was found guilty of conspiring with Symonds and Briatore to cause the crash with helped its other driver Fernando Alonso win the race, “apologised unreservedly” for his part in the plot, but will face no personal punishment after the FIA offered him full immunity in exchange for a full disclosure of the facts.

Fernando Alonso, meanwhile, has been cleared of all involvement in the plot and the FIA thanked the double world champion for his help with its enquires after he appeared at Tuesday’s hearing.

Lotus will return to F1 in 2010

Lotus will return to F1 in 2010

Lotus are to return to Formula 1 next season for the first time since 1994.

The Malaysian-funded outfit have been awarded the final grid spot and join Campos GP, Manor and US F1 as one of four new teams for 2010.

The FIA has given current team BMW Sauber “14th place” for next season, meaning they are now first reserves.

However, motorsport’s governing body says it will “consult urgently” with the 10 existing teams to expand the grid from 13 to 14 teams for 2010.

“The FIA believes that a good case can be made for expanding the grid to 14 teams,” read an FIA statement released on Tuesday.

Lotus confirmed for 2010 as FIA pushes for 14 teams

Following an intensive selection and due diligence process, the FIA has awarded the 13th entry in the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship to the new Lotus team.

The FIA also received an impressive application from the BMW Sauber team. As such, it has awarded BMW Sauber the ’14th place’ in the championship meaning that it will be entitled to fill any vacancy that arises on the 2010 grid.

In addition, the FIA believes that a good case can be made for expanding the grid to 14 teams. The FIA will be consulting urgently with the existing teams regarding the introduction of an appropriate rule change to expand the grid to 28 cars in time for the first Grand Prix in 2010.

Renault called on ‘fix’ charge

Renault called to WMSC on ‘fix’ charge

Renault has been summoned to appear before the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council later this month to answer charges that it sought to fix the result of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.

Renault charged over alleged Singapore Grand Prix conspiracy

Representatives of the Renault Formula One team have been requested to appear before an extraordinary meeting of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) in France later this month.

Renault called to face fix charge

The incident aided Piquet’s team-mate Fernando Alonso, with the Spaniard going on to claim victory.

If found guilty, the team face severe sanctions which could include expulsion from the current F1 world championship.

F1 row inches towards resolution

Formula One appears to be closing in on an agreement that will end the civil war between the teams and the sport’s governing body (FIA).

The teams’ umbrella group (Fota) and the FIA are in talks aimed at reaching a compromise over the disagreement.

The two parties have been in dispute over plans for a budget cap and the future of the sport.

Sources say negotiations are at a “delicate stage” but both sides are hopeful of reaching an agreement.

Fota have responded to a letter from FIA president Max Mosley after he urged them to this week submit an unconditional entry for next year.

Mosley made it clear if they did so, he would sit down with all the confirmed entrants and listen to their proposals with regard to the shaping of the regulations for 2010.

An FIA spokesman said: “The FIA has received a letter and various attachments from Fota, the contents of which are not entirely negative, and we are currently examining the details.”

However, it is not the first time that an end has looked in sight – the teams and the FIA staged meetings around the Monaco Grand Prix but failed to come to an agreement.

A meeting then took place between drivers and team principals representing eight members of Fota at the Turkish Grand Prix.

From BBC

F1 teams granted entry for 2010

All 10 current Formula 1 teams have been included on the list of entrants for the 2010 season, though five of those are on a conditional basis.

Brawn GP, McLaren, Renault, Toyota and BMW Sauber have until 17 June to submit an unconditional entry for the season.

And Ferrari are still adamant they will not race under the planned rules as the teams and the governing body continue to row over the future of F1.

Campos Grand Prix, Manor and US F1 have been accepted as new teams next season.

However, it is still unclear which teams will be joining them on the grid as the teams and the FIA are still at odds over new budgetary and technical regulations.

Eight of the current F1 teams applied to be on the grid for the next campaign on the basis that plans to implement a £40m budget cap were altered or waved, unlike Williams and Force India, whose applications were unconditional.

The teams, though committed to reducing costs in the sport, feel the budget constraint is too harsh and too soon and say the FIA’s plan to reward those teams who operate within the £40m budget with relaxed technical restraints would create a two-tier championship.

The Fota teams show no sign of backing down on this issue, and are expected to pursue more negotiations with the FIA aimed at ending the impasse, after 11th-hour negotiations on Thursday proved unsuccessful.

Fota also want the published 2010 regulations to be rewritten, while accepting the principle of a slower ‘glide-path’ down to FIA president Max Mosley’s budget cap figure over the next couple of years.

from bbc


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