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“Max?  When we banned Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds from Formula One…we did check that we were allowed to, didn’t we?

“Um…”

They weren’t, as it turns out.  A French court ruled yesterday that the FIA have no power at all to ban Briatore and Symonds for their roles in the Crashgate scandal.  There’s no provision for [...]

Listen all y’all, it’s a sabotage

From the freshly-released full Court Of Appeal judgement allowing Renault to race this weekend, a chunk of the FIA’s decision to ban Renault from the European Grand Prix:

The contested decision further states that the Competitor knowingly released car no. 7 from the pit stop position without one of the retaining devices for the wheel-nuts being securely [...]

Right decision, right reasons? Renault race in Spain

…what?  Issues from Hungary to talk about?  Oh, bugger.

One of those issues was the penalty given to Renault for an incident at the Hungaroring.  The team were adjugded to have released Fernando Alonso’s car from its first pit stop before it was safe to do so, and were excluded from this week’s European Grand Prix [...]