Renault Penalty Verdict - Part 2

Max and Pep talk about the penalties arising from the crash scandal.

What do you think? Thanks for watching.

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[skaife2]

Piquet saying he was under huge pressure from Flav is a bad reason for purposely crashing a car, Heikki Kovalainen was in a similar position, yet he managed and scored 30 pts for Renault, Piquet scored just 19. Piquet got a podium before Heikki in his 1st season too, no excuses.

[F1Podcast]

Good point Phil. Hope you're well mate! - Max

[jerryjoe88]

Is Renault going to sue Flavio for dragging the Renault brand through the mud? Or...does Renault just want this to all go away? How much will this cost Renault in the long run?

[F1Podcast]

I'd suggest they want it to go away. Commercially, they can't affort their already tarnished brand to be dragged further through the mud. - Max

[green95gt]

were you guys toasted when you did this vid? Ya know, "pissed", drunk?

[F1Podcast]

Yes, yes and yes. Well I was. Pep's the more responsible one, ROFL! - Max

[series2au]

Nelson's involvement in "crash gate" has ended his career in F1. The thing I don't get is why he thought it was a good idea to come out with this information in the first place! If it were me I would have kept quiet and looked for somewhere else to drive in 2010.

[didickcheeseburger]

theres no evidence to suggest alonso knew anything. i doubt that when briatore and symonds hatched this scheme they felt any need to tell alonso anything. all they gotta do is tell alonso when to pit and tell piquet when to crash and let it work out as planned.

[ImTheMostViewed]

If the Renault F1 team is banned for 2 years why is the team talking about their driver lineup for next season?

[jraybay]

the 2 year ban doesn't just mean if they devise a plan like that. It also means if they break f.i.a rules again they could be banned for life. I guess to a certain extent if it a serious rule or if they do something crazy again. and Good call on gnarls barkley, crazy :P .

[bigirls00075]

I think max might need more serotonin!'

[katlvsf1]

very harsh for fabio, but piquet, why 1 year to say anything?!?!?

my worries are for the 2010 season. what kind of rules and regs. are f1 going to follow??? it seems f1 is not thinking correctly. grey lines and rules, where are they going?? i feel the silly things in f1 are not finnished. kat 0: comments??????

[TheRealJakeKool]

Perhaps I should say, the penalty was FAIR not harsh, to the side of being less of an impact that it could. There is no doubt spying on Ferarri was beneficial to them and that knowledge never leaves their engineers heads..

[TheRealJakeKool]

In their FERRARI *cough* I mean McLaren, yeah

So the option was, disqualify them from the 2007 and 2008 seasons ! killing their revenue from that, 2nd place is a big deal you know and gets you a lot of money from Bernie.

They got off lightly.

[didickcheeseburger]

i wouldnt say mclaren got off lightly. i can see how mclaren deserved $100million fine and renault got no fine. ferrari spent a lot of time and money on developing their car and mclaren reaped some benefits. renault just had desperate idiot employees that used illegal strategy to win a race. plus given the economy these days a lot of f1 teams would probably leave f1 if they received such a heafty fine. mclaren looks like its the most sponsored car on the grid so they likely got more money.

[FormulaOneFan4Eva]

1/3 of their annual budget and a penalty in hungary that literally costed them the constructors championship in 2007 is getting off lightly?

[FormulaOneFan4Eva]

true, anthony helped lewis through his entire career and if it weren't for him, he wouldn't be in formula one...

but really do we need to see him every single second of a broadcast... every single time, just before the lights go out, they cross to the mclaren garage, lewis makes a pitstop, we see his dad, lewis sets fastest lap, we see his dad...

appart from australia, when have we seen john button this season? who you might ask? oh yeah jenson has a dad too!

HOLY SHIT!

OTHERWORLDLY!

[FormulaOneFan4Eva]

i hope piquet's career isn't over... you never know what flavio used to do behind the scenes, he IS the cheapest, dirtiest team manager in the history of formula one, no arguments please, not even peter warr comes close...

if piquet could get another drive, possibly with one of the cosworth runners next year, we may be able to see him with team preference on his side... remember nigel mansell at lotus? i'm not for a second saying that piquet has THAT kind of potential but give him a chance...