After becoming World Champion in 20 and a one-year stint with McLaren, he returned to the team in 2008.
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Spanish racing driver Fernando Alonso had been involved in Formula One since 2001, and drove for the team from 2002 to 2006. (QPR), which he purchased jointly with Formula One president Bernie Ecclestone, being joined later by funds from Indian industrialist Lakshmi Mittal. In addition to his Formula One sporting interests, as of August 2007, Briatore was Chairman and part owner of the English football club Queens Park Rangers F.C. After managing Renault's motorsport sister company Mecachrome, he returned to the main team following the Renault takeover, again as managing director. Italian businessman Flavio Briatore had been managing director of Benetton until 1997, when he was replaced by Prodrive boss David Richards. The Renault F1 Formula One team came into existence with the car manufacturer Renault's re-entrance into Formula One in 2000, by purchasing the Benetton Formula One team. Their bans were subsequently overturned by a French court, although they both agreed not to work in Formula One or FIA-sanctioned events for a specified time as part of a later settlement reached with the governing body. Briatore was banned from all Formula One events and FIA-sanctioned events indefinitely, whilst Symonds received a five-year ban. The disqualification was suspended for two years pending any further comparable rule infringements. On 21 September, it was announced that the Renault F1 team had been handed a disqualification from Formula One. On 16 September, Renault stated that they would not contest the charges, and announced that the team's managing director, Flavio Briatore, and its executive director of engineering, Pat Symonds, had left the team. After an investigation, Renault F1 were charged with conspiracy on 4 September, and were to answer the charge on 21 September 2009. Piquet described his crash at the time as a simple mistake.Īfter being dropped by the Renault team following the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Nelson Piquet Jr alleged that he had been asked by the team to deliberately crash to improve the race situation for Alonso, sparking an investigation of Renault F1 for race fixing by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the Formula One governing body.
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Alonso subsequently won the race after starting 15th on the grid. The other Renault driver, Fernando Alonso, had previously made an early pitstop, and was promoted to the race lead as other cars pitted under safety car conditions. On 28 September 2008, on the 14th lap of the Singapore race, the Renault R28 driven by Nelson Piquet Jr crashed into the circuit wall at turn 17, necessitating a safety car deployment. The Renault Formula One crash controversy, dubbed Crashgate by some in the media, was a sporting scandal caused when Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr, deliberately crashed during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, to give a sporting advantage to his Renault teammate, Fernando Alonso. The wrecked Renault R28 car driven by Nelson Piquet Jr.