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On September 21, this year FIA's World Motorsport Council will get reunited in Paris to listen to the explanations of Renault F1 team regarding the most recent scandal that has stricken the F1 micro-cosmos: the 2008 Singapore GP fixing denounce, a.k.a Renault's Crashgate Affair.
As many F1 fans are just way too habituated to these dust-raising quarrels inside motorsport's top category for getting surprised because of them, the level of underworld-style machination, mixed with backdoor intrigues and even family secrets that have been disclosed so far to the world press, will keep more than one head worried at Renault's F1 headquarters in Oxfordshire, England, and in Piquet's home at Sao Paulo, Brazil, and of course plenty of lawyers restlessly working on the file this week.
Because what started being the typical dedication of a indignant employee to his former employer (was Piquet piqued?), has turned lately into something that smells really, really bad and is menacing to overthrow one of the most well-established and important teams in F1, the only one besides Ferrari and Mclaren who has won championships in this decade.
All began on August 3, this year, when Renault fulminantly sacked Nelson Piquet on grounds of lack of results (allegedly his contract established he should achieve at least 40% of the points his teammate Alonso could get)
The Brazilian reacted to this weeks later with a stinging attack against its former team before the media, revealing an allegedly long-endured unequal treatment in comparison with team mate Alonso, and denouncing that top-management officers at Renault suggested him to crash at a specifically premeditated spot in last year's Singapore GP, in order to prompt the safety car appearance and the interruption of the race sequence in behalf of team mate Alonso, who henceforth won the race.
Even though there are always lot of speculative comments and claims surrounding F1 teams and drivers wins, some points must converge and some coincidences must have occurred in this one for the FIA to launch a probe, for there's no doubt that the claim would have been a totally baseless and absurd one, FIA wouldn't have bothered in watching it through a magnifier lens.
Therefore, when on September 4, FIA summoned Renault to appear in a hearing to explain the denounce, many faces began getting serious: FIA won’t take such a step without at least an evidence or a proof which effectively pointed to the fact that there was something wrong in all this stuff.
Despite the substantiation of such a probe shall be conducted and kept in tight secret, and nonetheless the FIA has asked the parties involved to keep “silence” over the issue until the hearing, some data has been deliberated leaked to the media by “someone”, we believe that in order to increase pressure around and provoke statements and speeches from the protagonists which lead to more flaws and public disclosure of information.
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