Flavio Briatore has been banned for life from Formula 1 after the scandal involving the Piquet crash of last year, with the former Renault team manager banned from any contact with teams or drivers, and prevented access to any operative areas of F1 races. Technical director Pay Symonds gets a five year suspension, while drivers Alonso and Piquet junior have escaped sanctions.

Renault itself is facing permanent exclusion from Formula One, but this sentence has been frozen until 2011, meaning that Renault has these two years to get through without any further infringements. Any illegal acts or infringements will result in that permanent ban being executed immediately.

Renault president Bernard Rey has offered his apologies to Formula 1, and has said Renault will take full responsibility, even paying for the investigations carried out by FIA. The effects of this will certainly reverberate in the F1 world, though perhaps the shreds of credibility are slowing being collected and sown back together. Time will tell.

Source | Motorsportblog.it

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