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Robert Kubica Signs Two-Year Contract Extension with Renault

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Paddock gossips recently inaugurated this year’s silly season by launching rumors that Renault’s Robert Kubica had inked a deal to replace seven-time champ Michael Schumacher at Mercedes next year.  Mercedes denied the allegation, and Kubica was coy on the matter,  so the stories gained some traction.  After all, in Formula 1 rumors are generally credible [...]

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Williams Might Hire Currently Banned Pat Symonds as Consultant

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How do you get around a ban on being hired by a Formula 1 team?  You resort to a technique used by entrepreneurial professionals all over the world: you become a consultant.
Former Renault chief engineer Pat Symonds, who was banned from direct involvement in the sport as a result of last year’s Crashgate scandal, is [...]

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Renault R30 Launched in Valencia – Video

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The Renault Formula 1 team have officially launched their 2010 contender in Valencia, Spain, in advance of the first official test session which will open there tomorrow.  The new car appears to be an evolution of last year’s R29.  The R30 looks sleeker and less ungainly than its notorious predecessor, which Renault lead driver Ferando [...]

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Nelson Piquet Jr Moves to NASCAR

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It will come as a surprise to no one, perhaps, that Nelson Piquet, Jr is turning his back on the world of Formula 1, and making a journey across the pond to compete in NASCAR.
Piquet was disgraced last year after being implicated in the so-called Crashgate scandal.  Piquet admitted to deliberately crashing his car in [...]

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Flavio Briatore’s Lifetime Formula 1 Ban is Overturned

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Another chapter of the 2009 Crashgate scandal has been brought to a close.  Flavio Briatore’s lifetime ban from Formula 1 has been overturned by a French judge.  Briatore, the former team principal of the Renault team, had received the ban by the FIA for his alleged participation in a race-fixing scheme at the 2008 Singapore [...]

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Massa Insists Alonso Knew About Conspiracy

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Felipe Massa has made a fresh allegation that Fernando Alonso was fully aware of the Crashgate conspiracy at last year’s Singapore GP.  As reported in The Guardian, Massa told a group of Brazilian journalists on Wednesday, “It was the team and Nelson, but Alonso was part of the problem.  He knew. We cannot know it, [...]

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Prost to Head Renault in 2010?

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Alain Prost is apparently still in the picture as a prospective team principal at Renault for 2010 and beyond.  While there has been no official statement by Renault, their current management team, Bob Bell and Jean-François Caubet, are currently serving on an interim basis, to the end of 2009.  Bell and Caubet were appointed hastily [...]

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Piquet Sr Revises His Alonso Accuastion

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Nelson Piquet, Sr is now modifying his earlier claim that Fernando Alonso was fully aware of the plan allegedly put in motion by Flavio Briatore and Pay Symonds at Singapore last year to have Nelson Piquet, Jr deliberately crash out of the race to bring out a Safety Car.
While Piquet, Sr had previously stated unequivocally [...]

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Piquet Sr Willing to Take Flavio to Court

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According to a report published in the German publication Auto Motor und Sport, Nelson Piquet, Sr. is using current allegations against Flavio Briatore as leverage to extricate Piquet, Jr. from a long-term that currently binds the young Brazilian driver to the Italian impresario.  Briatore, who has long been mentor and manager to many drivers on [...]

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Briatore on Piquet: “He’s Not a Driver.”

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With the “Crashgate” investigation gathering steam, it is apparent that Renault executives have found the case against team bosses Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds to be damning enough to warrant their expulsion from the team.
There has been a steady flow of leaks during this inquiry, and each additional bit of information that has been publicized [...]

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