{"id":506970,"date":"2010-04-02T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/02\/crashgate-keeps-gate-crashing-piquets-reportedly-suing-briatore\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:59:00","slug":"crashgate-keeps-gate-crashing-piquets-reportedly-suing-briatore-for-libel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/506970","title":{"rendered":"Crashgate Keeps Gate Crashing: Piquets reportedly suing Briatore for libel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Motorsports<\/a>, Government\/Legal<\/a>, Renault<\/a><\/p>\n

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You didn’t actually think we’d heard the last of Crashgate<\/a>, did you? The scandal that rocked the Formula One racing world last season and well into the post-season involved the Renault<\/a> F1 team, its driver Nelson Piquet, Jr. and its top executives Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds.<\/p>\n

For allegedly directing Piquet to crash on purpose during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix<\/a>, thereby handing the advantage to teammate Fernando Alonso, Briatore and Symonds were banned – permanently and temporarily, respectively – from the sport. Briatore eventually had the sentence overturned in French courts, and whistleblower\/culprit Piquet found nothing but cold shoulders when it came time to find a new race seat.<\/p>\n

As part of the ongoing debacle, the Renault team under Briatore’s direction issued a statement in September 2009 claiming that Piquet’s assertions were entirely fabricated. As a result, according to ESPN, Piquet and his three-time World Champion father are now suing the disavowed Briatore for slander, with punitive damages sought to the tune of £200,000 (about $300k). Considering how many millions the Piquet and Briatore estates must be worth, the six-figure sum seems like a drop in the bucket, but that’s still more than we could say for Nelsinho’s flash-in-the-pan career in F1 that didn’t even last two seasons.<\/p>\n

[Source: ESPN<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Crashgate Keeps Gate Crashing: Piquets reportedly suing Briatore for libel<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Motorsports, Government\/Legal, Renault You didn’t actually think we’d heard the last of Crashgate, did you? The scandal that rocked the Formula One racing world last season and well into the post-season involved the Renault F1 team, its driver Nelson Piquet, Jr. and its top executives Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds. For allegedly directing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}