Crashgate Scandal

The Renault Formula One crash controversy, dubbed Crashgate by some in the media,[1][2] is a sporting scandal perpetrated by the Renault F1 team who ordered Nelson Piquet, Jr. to crash deliberately during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, in order to gain a sporting advantage for his Renault team-mate Fernando Alonso.[3]
On 28 September 2008, on the fourteenth lap of the Singapore race, the Renault R28 driven by Piquet crashed into the circuit wall at turn seventeen, necessitating a safety car deployment. The other Renault driver, Fernando Alonso, subsequently went on to win the race. Piquet described his crash at the time as a simple mistake.
After being dropped by the Renault team following the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Piquet alleged that he had been asked by the team to deliberately crash to improve the race situation for Alonso, sparking an investigation of Renault F1 for race fixing by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the Formula One governing body. After an investigation, Renault F1 were charged with conspiracy on 4 September, and were to answer the charge on 21 September 2009.
On 16 September Renault stated that they would not contest the charges, and announced that the team's managing director, Flavio Briatore, and its executive director of engineering, Pat Symonds, had left the team.
On 21 September it was announced that the Renault F1 team had been handed a disqualification from Formula One, which was suspended for two years pending any further comparable rule infringements. Briatore was suspended from all Formula One events and FIA-sanctioned events indefinitely, whilst Symonds received a five-year ban.[4][5] Their bans were subsequently overturned by a French court, although they both agreed not to work in Formula One or FIA-sanctioned events as part of a later settlement reached with the governing body.[6][7]

[@Slubrabeis]

"Crash? With a F1 car? Is'nt that dangoures?"
"No no no no! It's very safe."

[@AleOle]

hahahahahha amazing!

[@kavguy]

So bassiclly,engineer of Renault forced Piquet to crash only to make Alonso win?

[@harsafaiz9809]

It's funny lol, but my idol still Fernando 🤣😉

[@twiggyeison]

thats so funny and im a renault fan lol

[@SprengePotetgull]

Before that race, Renault haven’t won a race since Alonso won at Suzuka in 2006. Piquet Jr never won an F1 race, but his best result is a second place at Hockenheimring in 2008 (his rookie season), his only F1 podium. As a result of "Crashgate", Briatore was banned for life, while Symonds received a five-year ban (not lifetime for Symonds too, as said here). The bans was overturned by a French court in January 2010. Later on, Piquet Jr won the inaugural Formula E Championship in 2014/15. Currently, he is racing in the Stock Car Pro Series in Brazil.

[@danachappell9783]

Now Piquet spends his time in NASCAR...wrecking other drivers, kicking them in thr balls, and getting beat up by their pit crews.

[@hanafuda]

They're not even driving the correct way in the NASCAR race

[@HaraiGoshi345]

WTF Why did he try get into Red Bull????

[@harsafaiz9809]

Egxcatly, but red bull didn't received him

[@botigamer9011]

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