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Briatore: I was not involved in Crashgate
Ex-Formula 1 team boss Flavio Briatore still claims that he was not involved in the Singapore crash scandal of 2008, when Nelson Piquet Jr. intentionally hit the barriers in order to clear a path for then Renault team-mate Fernando Alonso to secure victory. Briatore was suspended for life by governing body the FIA when Piquet Jr., who was fired by the Italian businessman the following year, issued a document detailing the pre-race plans to cause a Safety Car period, but the sentence was overturned by the French courts because he was no longer employed by Renault and therefore did not fall under FIA rules. Now the 63-year-old says he was not a part of the plot. "The court in Paris was...
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