Renault have admitted guilt
Renault are not contesting the charges. Briatore and Symonds have left the team. People thought that blood capsules was serious cheating...
Andrew Everard:You'd never make a journalist: the fact that the team has said it will not contest the charges, and that Briatore and Symonds have left the team, may lead one to infer that suggest there is some degree of substance to the allegations made against it, but it doesn't mean that the team, or indeed Renault as company, has 'admitted guilt'.
Although on some publications that's exactly the kind of inference that makes one a 'journalist', no?
Anyway, I thought you were talking about this. I'd be acting guilty too if I was them.
Agreed, but then at least that 'this' doesn't look like it's just hit an immovable object, unlike this this...
BBC pundit and former team boss Eddie Jordan said he was surprised by Renault's announcement but believes it was effectively an admission of guilt.
"By suggesting they are not going to contest the allegations is in itself an admission," Jordan told the BBC.
No actual admission of guilt, but it certainly doesn't look good!
It hasn't been a good time lately for F1 - how many more of these scandals can it survive?
Well the front page of the Guardian web site has a headline "Renault Team admits ordering crash" which leads to a story that says that Renault will not contest the charges. It looks like I would make a journalist for the Guardian.
hammill:Well the front page of the Guardian web site has a headline "Renault Team admits ordering crash" which leads to a story that says that Renault will not contest the charges. It looks like I would make a journalist for the Guardian.
No, you can spell.
No, you spell far too well for The Grauniad.
hammill:Well the front page of the Guardian web site has a headline "Renault Team admits ordering crash" which leads to a story that says that Renault will not contest the charges. It looks like I would make a journalist for the Guardian.
Although interestingly Alan Henry's story doesn't use the word 'admit' anywhere. So it seems you might make a sub for the Guardian, albeit with JD's caveat, if not a journalist.
Clare Newsome:Snap!
"Sanp!" would have been funnier there...
I did actually write that, but I couldn't bring myself to post it
The weird thing is the transcript of the team radio from that race seems to indicate it was an accident caused by Piquet trying to get up to and past Barrichello, albeit under instructions from the team to do so. Briatore's reaction (which I can't repeat here) certainly seems to cast doubt on his knowledge of the transgression (he says Piquet is "not a driver", amongst other things...), unless he's a very good actor of course.
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You'd never make a journalist: the fact that the team has said it will not contest the charges, and that Briatore and Symonds have left the team, may lead one to infer that suggest there is some degree of substance to the allegations made against it, but it doesn't mean that the team, or indeed Renault as company, has 'admitted guilt'.
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