I have never seen a bigger scandal in auto racing than the one caused by the Renault team last year in Singapore. Piquet was the driver of the Renault car, and he crashed his vehicle on purpose against a wall at the Singapore circuit last year. He did all of this under orders given by the team director Flavio Briatore who was expelled by the team´s owner last week when the scandal appeared. The crash benefited Fernando Alonzo (Piquet´s teammate) who was already in pits when the accident happened, and when the safety car came out all car went to pits and Fernando Alonzo came out first to win the race. This is no way to win a race, and this is not good sportsmanship. There will always be the doubt if Fernando Alonzo new about Briatore´s orders, I hope not because he is a good driver. Piquet was offered immunity by the Fia because he exposed the scandal; But he shouldn't have accepted those orders in the first place, and he only revealed the scandal when he was expelled from the Renault team.
It looks like the Renault team was under a lot of pressure to earn money, and perhaps by wining more races they could get more sponsorships, but this is not the way to do it. Watch the scandal in this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZrCVbU6pWQ
Picture courtesy of
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
