Brisbanetimes.com.au, 11 Sep 200
Formula One was left reeling on Thursday after a leaked transcript of Brazilian Nelson Piquet's evidence in the latest 'race-fixing' controversy revealed that, according to him, he was asked by his Renault team to crash deliberately at last year's Singapore Grand Prix.
The sport, already struggling to recover from the black cloud left hanging over it following the 'spy-gate' affair of 2007 and this year's 'liar-gate' row at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, was stunned by Piquet's claims.
In effect, he said that Renault team chief Flavio Briatore and his engineering director Pat Symonds persuaded him to conspire to cheat by crashing to help his team-mate Spaniard Fernando Alonso win the race, which he did.
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