By Adrian Musolino
September 13th 2009 @ 4:35am
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The ramifications of race-fixing saga will run deep
The race-fixing scandal involving the Renault F1 team is getting ugly with the team commencing legal proceedings against Nelson Piquet for defamation and blackmail following his bombshell accusations. The saga is only going to get uglier.
For the uninitiated, Renault have been accused of fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix by allegedly ordering Nelson Piquet [...]
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Andrew Lee said | September 13th 2009 @ 5:08am | Report comment
No, Massa would have won the race and Raikkonen would probably be second. The pitstop incident happened because the mechanic operating the traffic light was in a rush to release massa as they had a stacked pit-stop with raikkonen behind. With Massa pitting on his own, the mechanic would have simply operated the light system with no worry of raikkonen.
megatron said | September 13th 2009 @ 12:15pm | Report comment
That’s why in theory the results should be cancelled. But the implications of that would be huge! If Lewis lost the title based on that the UK would stop watching F1.