Rather than contest charges of fixing the result of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, the head of Renault’s Formula 1 team, Flavio Briatore, has stood down today.
Pat Symonds, the team’s engineering executive has also left the team.
The FIA had asked Renault to answer after Nelson Piquet Jr made allegations that his crash in last year’s Singapore Grand Prix was done on team orders.
Piquet made the allegation after having been sacked by Renault.
Briatore’s decision to resign rather than answer the charges leaves doubt over what, if any, action the FIA will take against the team: an official statement is yet to be made by the sport’s governing body.
In This Story: Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
The country’s territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet, the combined area of which has increased by 25% since the country’s independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the second greatest population density in the world. The country has almost 5.7 million residents, 61% (3.4 million) of whom are Singaporean citizens. There are four official languages of Singapore: English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil; with English being the lingua franca.